One day there will be a day without fruit to prepare or pick, but today is not that day. May started off quietly enough with a bit of tree maintenance, mulching and adding compost to the trees, and building our reed bed with our helpers Christie and Jessie, but now it’s just descended into fruit…
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Reed-bed grey water recycling
Last month we discovered that our soakaway was broken, so decided to construct a reed-bed system to handle the grey water from our kitchen and outside sink. The idea is that eventually, the cleaned water from this will feed a pond, somewhere else in the garden. Preparation First, we got a Bulgarian trench-digger to dig…
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How to break a soakaway, and what we did next
Most Bulgarian village houses have a soakaway to deal with grey-water from the kitchen. This is simply a hole in the ground, often lined with tiles or old tyres, and all your kitchen water goes into it. They’ve been using these for years here. Mostly, they are not a problem, until we come along with…
Read moreHad to dispatch my first chicken today. It was not a pleasant task, and I didn’t manage to do it very cleanly. I’ll see if I can find better ways of stunning the bird first, so I can cut its head off without it struggling 🙁
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