Harvest time.

[Wild-Woman]

Harvest time is under way here in the North Kent. It's very dusty! The field behind us was harvested during the night. How about your area?

[Garden Carpet]

It wont be long till it happens here. There is a field of some sort of cereal beside my house. I am dreading it being harvested as it means an influx of mice and even rats into my poor little cottage. Its the only thing I dislike about living next to this field.

jaki

[ogwen]

Not started here quite yet, but will be soon, theyve got some manure ready for muck spreading

[village wench]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Harvest time is under way here in the North Kent. It's very dusty! The field behind us was harvested during the night. How about your area?

Something 'cerealy' has been harvested about two miles up the road from me late last week,just stubble left now with neat rows of straw

[Ukwildlifeo]

My council have harvested the hay in my local country park just a the meadow is starting to peak - thats a the harvest mice homeless for another year. Oh well theose council xmas parties and all expenses paid fact finding trips dont pay for themselves

[Ollie]

A couple of fields of Barley have been harvested around me but most of it requires around another week or so before it will be ready.
Roger

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

My council have harvested the hay in my local country park just a the meadow is starting to peak - thats a the harvest mice homeless for another year. Oh well theose council xmas parties and all expenses paid fact finding trips dont pay for themselves

I can't quite follow what you mean. I am not being silly, but why does making hay at hay time pay for a Christmas party?

[thunder]

Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

My council have harvested the hay in my local country park just a the meadow is starting to peak - thats a the harvest mice homeless for another year. Oh well theose council xmas parties and all expenses paid fact finding trips dont pay for themselves

The Harvestmice will move into the bottoms of the hedges (assuming you have hedges), and any bits of rough grass that they can find.

henrya

[ron1863]

The farmers are just harvesting the winter silage around my way, still a good bit to go before they take in the grain crops though.

[seamusagleann]

it's the one thing i miss!! unfortunately there is no grain crops up this way, just a few fields of hay. as a lad i remember the grain harvest ,not as the mass produced dust makers of today ,but the old way of the reaper/binder throwing out the "stooks"(sheafs) at the back of it . then gathered up,usually by the women and stacked facing south west .when they dried a tractor and trailer took them to the stack yard ,each stook was placed so that the grain was sheltered. when ready a roving team would call with a threshing mill and a bailer . the mill would separate it into ,chaff ,grain and straw .the grain was gathered into sacks and stored,the chaff was collected on open weave sacks,then the corners gathered ,thrown over the shoulder and taken into the cattle shed. the straw went through the bailer and stacked for winter bedding for the animals, and,incidently, made great forts. yes it was a truly magical time, but very hard ,hot work soon forgotten for the day,by an evening in the bothy with the threshing team ,most of them singers and musicians, that's where i first tasted ale....cracking times!!!