28 Jan 2018
The past few days have been lovely, and we've pressed on with distribution of manure. Dave's been working on the vegetable beds, while I've tackled the hugels and the artichoke and herb beds, then started on the trees.
The past few days have been lovely, and we've pressed on with distribution of manure. Dave's been working on the vegetable beds, while I've tackled the hugels and the artichoke and herb beds, then started on the trees.
Moringa seeds sprouting on the windowsill. Much happier this year with the house being so warm.
If we can keep them alive, they will be six foot high trees by summer.
Four stand-alone trees (counting the not very visible one right at the back by the hedge) with enlarged, manured pockets, ready to be straw mulched when we get a bale
Second hugle ready too
The vegetable beds, ready to go
The artichokes, which seem to survive without any attention, but I enlarged their bed and fed them some manure, so maybe we'll get larger chokes this year.
The old overgrown herb bed. The top end is luxuriant oregano and rosemary and fennel, but the other end wasn't doing much. I cleared it up, and found chives (to my surprise), some wild thyme, just outside the bed on the left, some wild spearmint and a patch of indeterminate sprouting bulbs. I protected them all, weeded out the couch grass and put down manure.
And another tree. A peach, in a very bad position, behind the water tank, but just growing big enough to poke out into some sunlight, also cleared and fed.
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