In other farm news, over the coming months Dinny will be spending some time working with riders in the Victoria Riding for the Disabled program. I'll still be riding him several times a week and keeping up with my lesson program, but he will also have another important job to keep him busy. Down in Washington, Bonny steadfastly refuses to get pregnant. This is terribly frustrating as we were all so excited at the prospect of the cross with North Forks Cardi. I know this is just the way it goes sometimes in the world of horse breeding, but sheesh... the last one was so easy!
The electric fence down the road where we are able to turn the horses out into a bigger field than we have here at home was destroyed the other night, perhaps by some marauding deer - fixed that today only to discover that we have no power down at our barn so our electric fence isn't working either! Will tackle that ASAP as it would be somewhat un-neighbourly of us to have the horses trotting through other people's gardens in their endless search for tasty stuff to eat.
I hope you're going to have another baby horse on your farm for me to visit in the not too distant future!
ReplyDeleteDo you have a vegetable garden on your farm, too?
Your garden looks good, ditto with the apple trees in an earlier. No room on our urban spread to grow apple trees...sigh. But you reminded me, I could plant some garlic now.
ReplyDeleteOops. Earlier post, I meant to say.
ReplyDeleteHi Sally -
ReplyDeleteyour garden looks great, too! I know you don't have a lot of space, but could you fit in an espaliered apple tree? We put one in this year that has five different varieties of apples grafted to the root stock. We have promised ourselves to be very disciplined when it comes to pruning to keep the tree a modest size and prevent the wild overgrowth problems we have with the old trees we inherited. In the cooler months you can still grow veggies right around the bottom of the tree - by the time the leaves are out, the lettuce, etc. is finishing up... Good luck with your garlic!
Gumboot Goddess, heaven knows we are trying hard on the foal front! Success, though, seems to be out of our hands...
ReplyDeleteAs for the veggie garden, it's not nearly big enough. But then again, are gardens ever big enough? Hey - do you have any great garlic recipes you want to share?