It has been one of those summers where every one is talking about how beautiful the weather has been, no wind, warm water and these warm beautiful days with slightly cooler evenings. People that have lived here for long say this is how it used to be in December. Anyway it is lovely, the holiday is over and the holiday makers had really good blessed weather.
This is the summer where some day when we get to the drive way, we only realise how extremely hot the day actually is. We have a full canopy of trees and full shade. Like being in a forest. We have been having most meals, lunch and dinner outside. And we have heard plenty people complain that they hate their homes because it is so hot and they wish winter would come. The garden has really become a place of peace and shelter this summer.
Michael has been soil harvesting for a couple of months under the wild fig trees. Well to start at the beginning he made the soil there over a period of a few years. Filling up the area with branches cut from trees, any soil dug out else where, house sweepings and even compost material from the kitchen. Now it has broken down into this dark light healthy soil that is being dug out and put into my veggie patch. Michael want the level under the wild fig trees to be the same level as the stream, retained by a rock wall. Eventually it will become a seating area.
Michael went to fetch tires this week and has been making a retaining wall on the outside of the veggie patch and filling it with this beautiful soil. I’ve also asked him to put some in the pTch itself, as it needed just some new soil and also a bit of horse manure here and there before I go get seedlings this week.
I’ve had a bit of pleurisy the past couple of weeks and have been frustrated because I like doing all of the above myself, but have not physically been able to. So thank you Michael it looks beautiful.
I’ve been harvesting beans, sweet potatoes, plum tomatoes, cauliflower and cabbage from the garden. The butternuts and patty pans are making flowers and looking quite healthy. Just before we went away in December I planted two trays of asparagus seedlings and they are thriving. They are making little spears already, but it seems you have to leave them for about three years before you harvest them to ensure healthy strong plants.
Jbay Garden 