Olive Pruning

Sunday 13 November 2011

As the trees aren't fruiting, we can trim the overgrown branches anytime, so now we have our own chainsaw, Dave decided to do some pruning himself.  We were both a bit terrified.  I ran away and couldn’t look – especially as I didn’t want to distract him in any way.  He did very well, and brought down two overgrown branches, leaving the tree looking a lot more sturdy. 

One of the branches was very solid, and the wood was lovely, so I insisted we keep the logs in case they are needed in the build for anything.  Here they are stacked up at the foot of the tree-house tree, away from the fire log pile.

Something has been eating our lettuces.  All the garden centres in Lefkas town were full of trays of lettuce sprouts, which is a good indication of what to plant when.  So I put a tray in, but every night they were getting fewer and fewer.  So one night I checked them by torchlight and found several very fat slugs hard at work.  Dave plucked them off and chucked them down the garden, and the remaining lettuces have survived so far.

 This was initially two rows in parallel.  Most of the top row have been eaten.  The slugs seem to have been very organised, attacking one plant at a time.  Greek super-slugs!