The roles of water

Water is used for many things in the life of a plant such as: 

• It keeps the plant upright and enables the leaves to be held in the best position for sunlight to reach them.
• Nutrients and trace elements are carried in solution to the cells of the plant where they are used for growth and activity.
• Water allows plants to cool themselves by evaporation through the stomata.
• It is also needed for photosynthesis
• Water helps the upward movement of salts and nutrients in the plant. 
• Water provides the transport system for important substances from the one part of the plant to another (translocation)

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a biochemical process in which plants, algae, and some bacteria harness the energy of light to produce food. Ultimately, nearly all living things depend on energy produced from photosynthesis for their nourishment, making it vital to life on Earth. It is also responsible for producing the oxygen that makes up a large portion of the Earth's atmosphere. Organisms that produce energy through photosynthesis are called phototrophs.

Stoma

A tiny pore in a plant leaf surrounded by a pair of guard cells that regulate its opening and closure, and serves as the site for gas exchange.

Stomata is the plural of Stoma

Our Pizza Oven is Finished!

The Finished Product

Front view

Right-side view

Back view

Left-side view

Our Steinofen

Photo Update! on our pizza (stone) oven

test run and insulation...

Drumroe Ducklings II: Update!

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Carrots made in Drumroe!

Our New Ducklings

"First Light" Made by Allison @ Drumroe

Here is an August - September photo update from our chickens

Remember the Welsummer Chicks?

We also had four Rhode Island Red chicks hatch... one died.

We also had two batten chicks hatch... Ebony and Ivory!

We are building a pizza oven!

Here is an August - September photo update from our potatoes

Here is an August - September photo update from are garden

Plant of the Day:Osmanthus delavayi

Type: Shrub (Multi-stemmed Plant), Hedging & Screening, Evergreen, Flowering
Form: Rounded Multi-Stemmed Bush, Architectural Form
Size: Large Border / Screening Plant (1.8 to 3m height)
Colours: White Flowers, Medium green Foliage
Care Low/Easy Maintenance: Tough Plant
Hardiness: Very hardy
Growth: Slow Growing Plant

Osmanthus delavayi is an 'all year round' tough plant suitable for problem areas;  Provides valuable winter interest with it's evergreen foliage for all year round colour and screening. Tolerates cold exposed locations and heavy clay soils; This very beautiful, slow-growing shrub has small, dark leaves and delicious fragrant jasmine-like flowers that appear in profusely in April. The scent can easily be detected from some distance.

Getting our Bees - Part II: Transferring the nucleus to the hive