So, it turns out that the slightly strange sensations I had been feeling in my right leg, which i had been putting down to all the KMs I had been doing coming up to Mondello24 were actually caused by a herniated disc in my back. Just when I thought the #harvest23 experience couldn't get much worse Tuesday morning proved the opposite, I can walk a little better this morning so I'm off shortly to see if I can climb up into the combine....

Day 4, best day yet, hopefully finish winter barley today. #harvest23 #farming #agriculture

Still in the first field of #harvest23 , started twice, got rained off after an hour or so twice, maybe today will be third time lucky? #farming #agriculture #barley# #bloodyweather

Ours is bot quute ready yet but the neighbours are away, smashing day for the job #harvest23

Flowering in our Viognier started last week! #harvest23 #Languedoc #TerrassesDuLarzac #IGPSaintGuilhemLeDesert

The first #apples of #harvest23 have set in our orchard. About 6mm in diameter right now, they'll grow slowly at first, by cell division for the next 8 weeks orvso. After that, they continue to grow, but by cell expansion. They have about 150 days to grow another 70mm in diameter, to turn out as juicy, tasty, ripe apples by next October.
#Horticulture #Orchards #Jonagored

In the words of BellX1 the end is nigh😁 One last push to get finished before tidays showers and the doom scrolling of met eireann's weatger radar can stop #farming #spring23 #harvest23

Got the heavy press out today, nothing like it to break down ploughed land #harvest23 #farming #springbarley

It was cold standing for an hour or more in that field of wheat, there wasn't much good news either. Still good to get out and meet the other lads at what will probably be the last crop walk of the year. #farming #crops #harvest23 #wheat #agriculture

18.8 mm of rain last night and another 7 or 8 forecast for tonight, doing anything out on the land seems to be quite a bit away, crops holding up OK for the moment but the weeds will be growing, control isn't going to be simple if we cant get out soon. #harvest23 #crops