I love trying to get a super early crop of some of the veggies we grow and love. This year I thought I'd try and go for early cucumbers. The children are in love with the mini cucs you can buy ...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/05/super-early-cucumber.html
I got a couple of messages on my YouTube channel the other day, one from Brasil and one from Franklin Massachusetts. Both said they'd built the saw horses in the video I made in September 2022....
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/05/saw-horses-in-massachusetts.html
We're always struggling for storage space, too much stuff is probably the reason in all honesty. And we do try to chip away at it, and reduce how much we buy as well. But our porch isn't real...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/make-some-pigeon-holes-for-extra-space.html
My wife was a way the weekend just gone, but me and the children still had a lovely time. We went to a friends for a fish and chip supper on Friday night, had a lovely sunny day outside on Saturd...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/3-course-dinner-cooked-by-children.html
I've written a lot of magazine articles now, well over a hundred, and very occasionally I might hear back from someone who has read one. One of my first articles in Woodcarving magazine was...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/trio-of-carved-toolboxes.html
I love this time of year. It's been a challenging spring so far (I know we're not even very far into it yet either!), but the sun was shining so I decided it was the perfect opportunity to go f...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/april-homestead-tour.html
Although we still have some good, tasty apples left in the store we have started buying some the last few weeks. The stored ones just don't travel well now and as four of the five of us go of...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/stored-apples-in-april.html
I've mentioned this before on the blog, but the little 8x6 greenhouse needed a bit of an upgrade this year. The base I put in some 12 years ago, it was just some 8x2 treated softwood I had ...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/greenhouse-upgrade-building-base.html
I was a bit broken hearted the other day. My daughter noticed the tree on our drive to school, it had gone over. This oak was always a little stunted, trying to grow out from the huge vet...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/oak-tree-downed-by-wet.html
Much as I quite like a few moments by the rain barrel to let my watering can fill up, I've decided that I'm wasting too much time doing it. So I dragged a water trough from the bottom f...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/watering-can-plunge-tank-mini-one.html
The polytunnel has been a constant source of shame for me over the winter. Full of dead plants and a thick green slime on the plastic. I was desperate to get it back into tip top form this ye...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/polytunnel-clean-up.html
My wife got me this book for my birthday and as she handed it to me she said "I feel this is the book you probably should have written." She also said that she knows I'm not the target audien...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/the-self-sufficiency-garden-book-review.html
With a break in the weather at the weekend I managed to catch up on a bit of gardening. First job was to pot on a good quantity of chillies and tomatoes. Some of these haven't grown at a ...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/sowing-seeds-and-potting-on.html
Saturday there was that yellow orb in the sky that we haven't seen for months. I decided to seize the opportunity, I got up early and set to making bread, then did my chores and lit the earth o...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/04/wood-fired-pizza.html
I managed to get a project I've been thinking about for many years done the other day - I made a wooden wheelbarrow! Now this isn't a typical wheelbarrow, it's more of a flat one. I wanted ...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/make-wooden-wheelbarrow.html
So we're over a year into our diabetes journey and our eldest has made the very big decision to switch from MDI (Multiple Daily Injections) for a pump on a closed loop system. So yester...
So at the weekend I gave my first days carving tuition. It was to a couple that had seen my videos on YouTube and enquired if I'd do some carving instruction. I was hesitant at first, i...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/carving-tuition.html
We need to take a stand against Defra's new rules on registering all poultry in the UK. Not just flocks of 50 birds or more. This was as the result of a consolation they did last year where t...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/new-chicken-keeping-rules-mass.html
I'm always walking around my plot looking at where I could squeeze in some more plants and increase the productive areas. One area is the orchard. I have one half planted up quite traditional...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/planting-gooseberry-hedge.html
This is a video that isn't mine, but I liked it and it made me smile. Hugh and Fiona are going through a tougher time due to Fiona breaking her leg quite badly. It talks about the discuss of ro...
A few years ago I put in a peach tree. The first year I thought it had died, but the next year it came back - it seems to still be living through the neglect I give it. This is the first year...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/hand-pollinating-our-peach-tree.html
On Saturday we had a great day completing the 12km "ShireHike" with the Scouts. It was a big event with some 700 scouts of different ages attending. There were different length routes, we d...
My greenhouse has been up about 10 years now , second hand when I got it, older than me and still going strong. I have been struggling with the clips though. When I glazed it I had to stretc...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/unusual-greenhouse-clips.html
This time of year is so full of promise, especially when my enthusiasm has been knocked back by the weeds yet! I've been busy sown little and often. In the greenhouse I've put the littl...
A very quick video today, where I'm a bit like a market stall holder on the hard sell! I've got some perfect products for mothers day. Every product is made by me, here in Herefordshire. ...
http://www.englishhomestead.com/2024/03/mothers-day-gift-ideas.html