There are some new arrivals and exciting plans ahead for Lucy, we have caught up with her to find out more
What had felt like a quite an easy, dry winter is now feeling like the longest winter ever. The last few weeks of very persistent rain has put a bit of a hold on the start of our event season. With 20 horses in the yard it is becoming a serious juggling act of re-organising and re-planning where we are going to take them.
Miscanthus is the main focus. We have 120 acres of our own plus over 500 acres of other growers’ crops to harvest and the weather plays a key role. The crop grows as a perennial and as temperatures drop in the late autumn the plants begin to draw the nutrients back down below ground into the rhizome, effectively allowing the main body of the plants to die back and begin to dry out.
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