Since I love raspberries, last year, instead of just leaving the canes in the open, we built a covered area for them to keep out the birds. The birds usually got most of the crop when they were in the open. This year, it’s been very different.    There has been a great crop, considering there [...]

Since I no longer have any chickens, there is an unused chicken pen in the back of the garden.   The soil is extremely good in there, with all the fertiliser and straw rotted in to the ground, so something has to be done with it. As I only have a very small area for raspberries [...]