Hilltop Farm Holidays
Hilltop Barn
“The Place with Space”
Tel: 01400 273003
August 2011
Monthly News
August is harvest month in Lincolnshire and here on the limestone cliff edge few crops are still standing by the end of the month. Fifty years ago things were very different. The combine harvester was only just on the scene and those in operation subject to breakages and of relatively low capacity. Harvest continued into September and in a wet year could take until early October to complete. Oats, sugar beet, peas and barley were the most common crops, with some potatoes. Now wheat and oilseed rape have come to dominate the landscape, since both are sown in the autumn and can establish well before spring droughts, now becoming more frequent, can do too much damage to yield.
Wild flowers on the verges of green lanes in the neighbourhood are now at their best. Late summer and autumn is a beautiful time to come to Hilltop Farm self catering barn and to enjoy walking in the countryside.