News From The Farm

Another year when our strawberries were ready earlier than normal. All the lovely lockdown sunshine helped!

Hot Hot Hot! The hottest Spring on record and don’t we know it! Irrigation has already started on some of our new plants, they need so much water when they are first planted out. Hopefully there will be some rain soon.

If it ever stops raining and once we can get back on the land we will be able to make a start planting carrots, cauliflowers, cabbage and possibly even potatoes this month.

All the pruning of the fruit trees and plants has now finished and winter ploughing is completed.

Our own grown holly will soon be available in the Garden Centre but it will be a race against time to pick it before the birds eat all the berries.

The potato harvest is now completed, so we are settling into the winter routine of grading them out of the store to ensure a good supply for the Farm Shop over the winter months.

Our potatoes and onions are now up and safely in store. It has been a good growing season for us so a good crop was harvested.

Onions are currently drying and will be placed in the store ready for sale soon.

The new season’s potato harvest is just about to get underway with the tops ready to be burnt off and the crops harvested in early September.

Now the warmer weather has finally arrived all fruits will be ripening fairly quickly. The raspberry crop is looking good although we have had to water them a little. Lovely juicy large berries will be ready to pick soon.

The first of our strawberries should be ready early this month and will be available to buy from the Farm Shop. Due to all the lovely sunshine in April and May we may be opening the Pick Your Own slightly earlier this year. It will be announced on our website and Facebook page. The gooseberry […]

The lambs have started to arrive on our tenanted fields but the Lapwings have only just appeared over at Esp Hill Farm. They are a little late for this time of year.

Purple sprouting broccoli should be available soon and another month or so our delicious asparagus will be ready!

All the pruning of the fruit trees and plants has now finished and winter ploughing is completed.

Most of December is devoted to getting the extra stock sorted for the Christmas demand. We have plenty of our homegrown cabbages at the moment but this will change as soon as we have any significant frosts. We continue to grade more potatoes and onions and have plenty in storage to last the winter.

Pumpkins are already being harvested and everything is being prepared on the fields for the opening of our PYO Pumpkins, Spooky Maize Maze and Sharland’s Family Fun Fair (20/10/18).

We have all varieties of cabbage, cauliflowers and broccoli available in the Farm Shop at the moment and there should be a consistent supply available. There may be a short gap on some varieties as we wait for them to be ready to harvest.

The new seasons potato harvest is just about to get underway with Marfona ready first, followed in the early autumn by Picasso. The onion crop will be ready to harvest by the end of the month and then will be left to dry.

The first of our strawberries should be ready early this month and will be available to buy from the Farm Shop. Due to all the lovely sunshine in May we may be opening the Pick Your Own slightly earlier this year.

After a much later start than normal our homegrown delicious asparagus is ready and available in the Farm Shop. We also have rhubarb, purple sprouting broccoli and cauliflower.

Spring is supposed to be here now! We still appear to be in the middle of Winter. The Lapwings have only just appeared over at Esp Hill Farm, they too are late for the time of year. Plant growth is very behind due to the recent cold and extremely wet weather we have been having.

The onions from last year are now finished and we have a few pallets of potatoes left in the store. We still have plenty of January King, Savoy, Red and Tundra cabbages, but the White cabbage are starting to deplete now. They will finish some time this month.

Winter ploughing is now completed and we can finally move onto all the machinery maintenance that is required in preparation for the busy planting season.

January is a great month for your greens! We have plenty of homegrown Savoy, January King, Tundra, White and Red cabbages along with leeks and of course our delicious sprouts which are not just for Christmas!
Purple sprouting broccoli, cauliflowers, rhubarb and asparagus are all growing well.

Most of December is devoted to getting the extra stock sorted for the Christmas demand. We have plenty of our homegrown cabbages at the moment but this will change as soon as we have any significant frosts. We continue to grade more potatoes and onions and have plenty in storage to last the winter.