What did I see the other night as I returned home from the office? A farmer, three vehicles and the return of the cows! Can you spot them there in the field down the track to the house? Yippee!
Now, as an ex-farmers wife - I guess maybe its a bit daft getting so excited by the return of the cows, but I love living next door to a herd of cows. I miss farming and when the cows arrive I'm in giddy heaven. They are just so lovely! And, best of all - I can spy them out of my living room window over the tomatoes and the indoor flock of birds.........and don't look at the shonky fence I put in a while back, its still a bit wibbly. But it does the job and the 'garden' is now (mostly) a chicken free zone. They can explore in other areas so if they start moaning about being excluded don't listen to them!
Can you see the willow hedge coming along there (in between the washing line, windows and cows?). Unfortunately these are not aesthetically framed pictures - more a running snapshot of cows rampaging around this morning! I'm just so happy to see them I don't mind my photos being a bit daft. The tomato in question there is Marmande - a good one for sauce. The hedge is one year and two months old - going quite well, over 5ft already - all from hard wood cuttings. Perfect - soon it will help with the shelter. Thankfully my living room is upstairs, so it won't ever spoil our view! Therefore I'll still see the cows!
More cows and more tomatoes - these are tumbling tom - already flowering - and doing well - about 1 1/2 ft (45 cm). Not too shoddy for a windowsill in the frozen north in late May. Well I don't think so! I've two window boxes of these planted - I hope they do well - they are cerainly flowering well!
More hedge and a veiw of the neighbours and a dead hebe in the midst of the willow hedge. I've got to think what I'll put in that space. Always with the bad, a bit of good. A new planting to be found!
There we go - cows home in the field for the next six months - hedge up and going, tomatoes now have a view of Hoy and a herd of cows - how much more stimulation can they get to grow!
