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Saturday, 15 January 2011

The growing part

So a few months of reflection have lead me to the following conclusion, I'm not a natural gardner!
Ok I can bring seeds on in the green house or window cills, run a green house and water everything, I'm the most diligent compostor and I've added a second wormery to the garden, cos I really hate waste. But hard digging, heavy stuff is just not me and thats what I really need right now. So I need a gardner but on a Nurses salary thats a lot of money, I thought I would but a card up at the local agricultural college, hoping I might find someone keen and cheap. A large kichen garden might be out of question anyhow because I'm prity seriously thinking of goats this year, it was always the long term plan but I wasn't totally ready to give up holidays, trips and all manor of fun gallivanting until now. Of course they eat everything (grass last) so that will effect the whole planning of the garden.

I love goats milk (handy as I'm intolerant to cows), yogurt, butter and cheese and have done lots of research on preparing your own dairy produce. I've made yogurt b4 A nanny in milk with a female kid would be the easiest start but I'm guessing hard to find. I plan to eat the male kids and sell the female kids. However the size of my available plot and the fact that goats are excape artists might lead me down the pygmy goat path, which will be enough milk for me but no meat because I think all the kids will go as pets.

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