MY GLORIOUS GARDEN SMALL HOLDING BEFORE DURING AND AFTER THE PIGS

TIME TO PUT THE GARDEN BACK TO A GARDEN FOR THE SUMMER

 

 

This is the first day our piglets arrived and our garden still resembled a garden, we were completely prepared for mud and lots of it, but I did find having the wettest year on record in over a hundred years a little bit of a challenge, mainly due to the personal pressure we had put on ourselves not to have any smell, as we are urban mini garden small holders in a very built up area and out of respect to our neighbours most of who have been outstanding and loved our pigs, we have had so many families in our garden meeting and petting the pigs and our fabulous neighbours opposite said they have really enjoyed watching ten's of cars pull up and people getting out and looking through the gap in the hedge at the pigs and then driving off,

 

Mud glorious mud...

 

5 ton of earth and 45 sq metres of fresh turf and a days hard work and the garden already looks almost back to itself.  Now just to grass seed where the chickens have scratched and we have walked bald areas over winter and the garden will be all done until next time !!!

 

In all we have really loved having the pigs for 5 months, and really look forward to doing this again, but this time hopefully we wont have to extend the pig run as we hope to have our pigs from August till December, when it will be drier rather then October to March and not to have Tamworth crosses, (ploughs on legs), we will go with the breed we originally wanted Gloucestershire Old Spots, nice old squat noses that take their time to rootle.