@noddan Been away a week and arrived home to see my French shallots and garlic in one bed suffering real bad from black aphids. I wanted to spray before I went away but it was raining. I will spray ASAP but think it maybe a lost cause, any tips?
I should have had some one check on the chickens and collect eggs while I was away, I didn't because I had enough feed out plus they could free range and water was not an issue.
But what came to mind while I was away was that once there was a good clutch of eggs accumulated a girl would get broody. Well my instinct was right, got home and one of the girls is sitting in one of the nesting boxes and obviously broody. Normally I expect these girls to get broody around early November
Had to wait till night when the girl was sleeping to see how many eggs she was sitting on, bloody hell there was 19 eggs. I was expecting 12 eggs at most.
Any way have marked what eggs there and will remove new eggs, can but hope I get a better girl/boy ratio this year but seems I could have a lot of new chickens
