Tag Archives: farming
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Bonzo’s stressful few days
25Sunday 01 May, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This is Bonzo. He’s our farm dog, security guard, alarm clock, waste disposal system, and all round entertainer of visitors (albeit …
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Grass/weed cutting time
12Monday 25 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Very soon I’ll be heaving the gas powered grass cutter onto my back for two solid days of tackling the …
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Last of the winter veg
2Sunday 17 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Temps are a climbing… up to the early 30s again now (that’s touching 90F), so time to rip up the …
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Macro Monday: Bees in the orchard
4Monday 11 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Time for another Macro Monday…. and for this week we have a shot taken by a friend of ours who …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Future (III)
15Sunday 10 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My third bash at the Weekly Photo Challenge is the future of our chook stock… Hope you enjoy this simple entry. . …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Future (I)
13Friday 08 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My first Weekly Photo Challenge idea of the ‘future’ shows a broad bean plant having just is poked through after …
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Flower Friday ~ Blossom; never enough
4Friday 01 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: First Apricot
7Monday 28 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Not very clear I’m afraid, but this was taken a couple of weeks back, and was the very first apricot …
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Flower Friday ~ Plum tree blossom
5Friday 18 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here are some not-so-close-up images of the plum trees which are in full blossom right now. At night it actually …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love (II)
12Tuesday 15 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge entry is all about my one love, food 🙂 We grow a fair amount of our …
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Macro Monday: Plum blossom in the rain
3Monday 14 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Broccoli plants
9Saturday 12 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
A little while ago we saw these beautiful flowers, and Joanne from My Life Lived Full mentioned wanting to see …
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Macro Monday: Young Iguana
5Monday 07 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Found this young fella in one of the orange trees close to the house the other day. Not often do …
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Flower Friday ~ First Apricot
11Friday 26 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken just a few minutes ago… This is the very first of the beautiful flowers that blossom on the apricot …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons (IV)
10Thursday 25 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows how the farm is inbetwixt (love that word) seasons, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons (III)
7Tuesday 23 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the start of the seasonal burn-up after winter. All 250 trees …
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Something simple from the freezer
16Sunday 21 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
With three freezers full of homegrown produce, it’s a pretty regular occurrence that I delve into their depths with not …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons (I)
17Saturday 20 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is typical for springtime here in southwest Türkiye. Everything is green, the …
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SPIKE WRITES: It’s Brian from the Orange Grove
4Sunday 24 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
The boy is back! “All Growed Up” Meet the talking bird from Turkey The bird who… -
Lemons, just a few
14Thursday 07 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Following the disaster of last January, when our big freeze wiped out all the lemons, killing one decent sized fruit-producing …
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Kumquat success
8Tuesday 05 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Whilst many crops have not favoured the weird weather of 2015, the humble little kumquat tree seems to be as …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Juicy Pomelo
1Wednesday 30 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Now (IV)
5Tuesday 29 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My fourth Weekly Photo Challenge entry for “Now” is me trying to catch some rather quick young chooks 🙂 Hope …
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Macro Monday: Fig leaf bud
5Monday 28 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Now (II)
5Saturday 26 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My second bash at the Weekly Photo Challenge is very much “now” for us, with winter fruit picking upon us, here on …
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Autumn colours, in Winter
12Saturday 26 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s officially past mid-winter…. yeah right! Our trees are only just shedding their leaves, as our weird weather continues unabated …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering (IV)
4Wednesday 23 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s final entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge is one taken here on the farm – a gathering of small …
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Making the most of it
8Thursday 03 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
When the mountains are as rock strewn as we have here in the southwest of Türkiye, there is little one …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory (III)
5Tuesday 17 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My third Weekly Photo Challenge entry is all about is perseverance towards uncertain victory! Or just plain old digging a hole for a …
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Macro Monday: Cherry tomato
3Monday 16 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My entry for Macro Monday this week is a simğple shot of the top of a small little sweet cherry …
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SPIKE WRITES: Oh Brian! What did you do?
Leave a commentSunday 15 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Chicks
8Wednesday 04 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Last summer produce
6Sunday 25 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s been a weird old year…. we’ve seen lemon trees decimated and some killed off by very rare severe frosts …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Careful (I)
5Friday 23 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is me up a tree, as per usual. Here on our citrus …
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Last Peppers
3Sunday 18 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Drying the last of the summer peppers before the rains start…
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The Village Mosque
8Saturday 17 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Rural villages throughout Türkiye each have their mosque and small school. Pretty much the centre of life; the mosque is …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place (IV)
5Tuesday 13 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is another of my ‘happy places’… and that …
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As fast as I put them in….
7Thursday 08 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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SPIKE WRITES: “Look at me!”
4Tuesday 06 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
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This’ll be tasty!
5Tuesday 06 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The citrus fruit yield looks to be well below average this year. Most of that is down to the weather …
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Remembering our Turkish rural springtime
Leave a commentSaturday 03 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Everything is green Everything is fresh Everything is lush Everything is growing… . . How different springtime time, compared to …
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Back when the monster was small…
15Thursday 01 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This was a few years ago now When the kiddo was light enough to hold! Taken on the roof – …
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Macro Monday: Locust
7Monday 21 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Locusts are regular visitors to our farm; not on any biblical scale, but just enough for the chickens to chase, …
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Logs of the future?
7Saturday 19 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Down in the lower olive grove, we have a rather tall lonesome pine that is growing at a weird, almost …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid (II)
Leave a commentSaturday 19 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is me taking a look at some of our chooks through the …
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Last of the summer crops
10Tuesday 15 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As summer proper recedes and we move into early autumn, the thermometer drops to below 100F (40C) for the first …
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Macro Monday: Watermelon flower
3Monday 14 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following on from the pumpkin flower, here is its neighbour, a tiny, simple and elegant flower from a watermelon plant. …
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Olives Trees ‘Off Season’
8Thursday 10 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Olive trees tend to produce a crop every two years, more or less. Some trees are a bit weird, producing …
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Drying hot peppers
8Tuesday 08 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here in Türkiye, we use a table condiment called Pul Biber on a daily basis. Basically it is red pepper …
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Gonna be a peachy old day
3Sunday 06 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Whilst the pear tree and the quince trees are bare this season, can’t quite say the same for the peaches! …
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