It is with considerable relief that I can report what you will have already been noticing on either side of the road as you drive out of the village and down the hill towards Shefford. The wheat is ‘ up ‘ and showing well in drilled rows! You might be surprised that I mention this …
One bright and breezy day, right at the end of September, someone remarked to me that it was “another beautiful day”; not hot, not cool just a lovely sunny early autumn day . . . . but there was no rain. I got to thinking what about was said and what was meant. In our …
Which is your favourite season ? Spring with the bursting forth of waking nature and the expectation of the sun on your back in days ahead. Summer with long lazy warm evenings and holidays to look forward to Autumn with its field and hedgerow harvest complete and the wonderful tinted trees. Winter with snow, frost, …
There is nothing more that we can do now. The rape and winter wheat crops are starting to ripen and lighten in colour and harvest will soon be upon us. The rape should be ready to combine at the end of July / beginning of August, the winter wheat by mid August and the spring …
I’m writing this on Saturday 6th June and at last we have some desperately needed rain, with more forecast over the next couple of days. We have had some very warm sunny days over the previous few weeks and everyone (understandably) has been remarking on the lovely weather. It all depends on how you define …
Our crops really get up a head of steam in May and early June before the ear emerges and it starts the ripening process. Mark continues to apply nutrients to optimize this growth and to spray to try and keep on top of fungal diseases which would otherwise reduce the plants’ ability to maximize the …
I saw ‘our’ first swallow yesterday, 14th April. Along with hearing the cuckoo this really is a sign that spring is well and truly here. Hedges and trees agree with multiple shades of green. Only the ash has yet to break bud at Polehanger. My father always quotes the old saying that if the oak …
We have a Little Owl that makes an appearance from time to time around our buildings. Recently ‘he’ appeared on the roof ridge of the barn opposite our house accompanied by another, slightly smaller Little ( lady ? ) Owl. Side by side, in the fading dusk light, they looked like a couple of Russian …
Many of you reading this will be familiar with the walks along paths that cross and skirt fields around Meppershall. Many of you no longer have any direct link to the farming operations that go on in the fields and in the farm office beforehand. Having floated the idea with Dick Bulley, the editor, I …
