Category Archives: Plants

Using Small Sheep in Vineyards

There are jobs that everyone associates with growing fruit. Things like harvesting are easy to romanticise, even though they can be exhausting physical labour. People also think about winter pruning. Less easy to romanticise, but personally I’d prefer to be rugged up in the rain than sweltering outside on a 35 degree summer day 🙂

Blue Popcorn Harvest

As most of you know by now, I planted two varieties of popcorn this year. The first, a miniature blue, was planted on the 12th of September, while the strawberry mini wasn’t planted until over a month later. This meant that I was ready to harvest the Miniature Blue popcorn long before the strawberry. I picked my […]

Popcorn Updates

An immature miniature blue popcorn cob

I’m quite behind when it comes to blog posts- there always seems to be something to plant, or harvest, or weed. All of which, in the moment, are more important than writing about it. However, what that means is that I actually finished harvesting the popcorn this week. I want to tell you all about it, […]