As we celebrated Christmas with our family none of us could have predicted the awful year we were going to endure; one which saw us all ‘locked down’ for months. Fortunately, Hannah had gone a bit wild with the seed catalogues over the festive season, so we were well stocked with vegetable seeds when it came to sowing time. I should explain that Hannah is the keen veg grower whilst Annie prefers perusing the flower catalogues and trying to find a ‘new favourite’ that will grow on our windy hilltop.
There was a bit of unloved, uncultivated land bordering our neighbour’s pasture that Hannah and George decided to use for growing veg. We think the neighbour’s field used to contain a warren where rabbits were raised for meat in Mediaeval times and we still have a lot of wild rabbits around now. They are very cute to look at but obviously a complete nuisance when you are growing vegetables, so George made a picket fence using wood from old pallets. They put chicken wire above the fence and also at the bottom to deter the rabbits. Luckily, there were two rows of concrete pavers running along the length of this bit of the garden which were left over from the pheasant breeding pens that used to be here which also stop pests burrowing in.
Foxglove Farm 