Garden works

1 March 2017

We've been having a little flurry of work in the garden.  We tend to go to the boatyard in the morning, then come home for a late lunch and potter round the garden in the afternoon.

 The buckwheat I planted to improve the soil where we don't have mulch is growing quite well.  It's a very pretty plant, with a red stem and later, small white flowers.

 

 This is an experiment in planting a few sprouted lentils that were left over in the bottom of the sprouting jar.  I tipped them out on a bare patch and they started growing.  Lentils are a speciality from Eglouvi, one of the local villages, so they are indigenous and may crop.

 Here are our six raised beds, four of which have been newly mulched, and are planted with potatoes, tomatoes, and peas.

 The kale is still producing little leaves, that are nice in salad, but the few remaining plants are trying to go to seed.  We'll be able to collect the seed and use it for next winter's sowing.

I've finished the olive tree bench.  It is level, despite how it looks, and will be a shady space to sit in the summer

 

 Dave is working on sanding and varnishing the floor boards from the boat

Then in the evening we went up to Neohori village to practice the song I want to sing with the band, at Dmitri's house.  We couldn't find the house, so I rang Dmitri, and he said, 'follow the geese', so we did.  And found the house.