Thursday, November 30, 2006

Teaching a dog new tricks

I'm not talking about Paddy, who is planting Garlic with Phil in this picture. But about Finn, who has learnt not to walk on the beds in the field. Rather than getting from A to B in a straight line she has to zig zag accross the field following the path system and not running over Phil's finely tilled beds. All is well and good until someone turns up to visit and she gets excited and forgets herself and charges across the field to see them! Hmmm

This picture shows the third day of garlic planting. Within just a couple of weeks they had set good roots and we now have little green tips showing! We have planted about four times more than we did this year as it has been such a successful crop for us and it keeps well and sells well.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well Phill looks like he's learnt some new tricks from Finn - does he usually get about on all fours these days?

Henri Brocklebank said...

Is that Milly? Since he slipped a disk four months ago he hasn't walked...but he is getting around just fine on his hands and knees!