Wrapping up January

30-31 January

I just didn't get all the photos in time for the last blog post last month.  So here are a few shots that wrap up the month's activities:

 After finishing the big hugel bed, I moved some more rocks to start terracing around the canopy extent of this big olive.  The wall will need building up some more to be fully level, but for this year, we just intend to dig it over roughly, and cover it with sheets to suppress weed growth.  Then next year, we will improve the soil and build up the wall.

 While digging out round the olive tree, I kept finding wild asparagus plants, like this one.  Wherever I found one I staked it up - they tend to spread out along the ground and would get trodden on otherwise. It should be easier to spot the new shoots next month, now.

 Almost by accident, another little hugel bed grew up below the rock wall.  There was quite a lot of half-rotted cut branches tangled in the grass, so I collected them together in the space between the wall and the path, to make a little extra bed.  As you can see, it already has an irrigation pipe, supplying the unleafed fig tree centre front.

 Indoors, here are pics of the little jobs we'd tackled in the rain: lathing this external corner of the bedroom, which will eventually have a sewing table, so there were some electrics to fit, for sockets and light switches.

And downstairs, a neat corner (at last - one!) where I installed a bookshelf, and we made, varnished and fitted a tiny little shelf for phone and wifi.  If you ring now, there's more of a chance we'll get to the phone before it rings off.