Thursday 30 June 2022

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Mudskool Haven...

A hill with a hole.at present it contains an invisibuilding gradually emerging into the light of reality.. The Earthworks give generously in ever increasing abundance .Few seem to have noticed that midsummer day has sneeked passed, folk are still waiting for "apropriate", "normal" seasonal weather... I'll  discuss global heating/cooling, CO2 Green house gases and whatnot another time. 

Forever upwardly mobile, it's not stopping there.

 

Beetroot, eaten grated raw as salad,  smoothied, boiled, pickled or borsch.A kitchen garden essential.

Cabbage just getting started, Lettuce almost ready to eat.

At last... The first of the white flowers of the Greek climbing beans. This is part of my Perrenial climber collection. Three varieties of four now showing. the purple flowering plants are taking their time.

Hearty eating, Kale is my delight.This curly leafed type is an explosion of green , successive plantings in small patches prevents complete crop failure in the event of pestilential attack or poor weather conditions. The Russian Kale has been harvested for it's seed, soon to be returned to the ground.Should be well stocked with that good stuff at least until April.

Top left, Chayotte, a hardy climber.To the right, Runner beans sown afresh are slow to develop.,only a few of the sowings will develop healthy rhizomes. They can be treated as perrenials, producing an earlier and more abundant crop. Mid picture, our carrot patch looks healthy. Lettuce, Calendula and Pansies occupy the bottom row.


 Unfinished business, to be continued... 



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Wednesday 29 June 2022

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Monday 27 June 2022

Thursday 16 June 2022

Saving Grace and Giving Thanks...

Keeping up with the speed of natural progress. The ongoing is a forever skyward journey. Acanthus and Sweet Williams outside the door, always a joyful start to the day.

 The garden is the home habitat to many creatures.Toads Frogs, Renet(Tree frog). two species of lizard, a black Salamander,grass snakes, slow worms and vipers. Mice and Moles. We get visits from Hawks, Buzzards, Owls, Chardonier, Hoopoe, Jays,Magpies, Our resident colony of house Sparrows are thriving. We have a pair of Starlings that couldn't be bothered to migrate to Africa every year. They like it here.  So do we.


Leek flower, just opening. . The seed will be saved for sowing next season. This years crop of seedling leeks are not yet ready to transplant.


 Red stemmed Swiss Chard, allowed to bolt.  More Seedy Savings.


 Black seed nearly ripe to harvest, this will go well with my muesli.


 Mullein towering above everything around it,  this is just the beginning. Madame tells me we are to harvest the petals... more on that later.


Hysopp...


Looks happy enough, Calendula adorns the Squash.


 The Chayote plant a survivor from last year. Speedily filling the "pig wire" support. Tendrils fanning out in all directions, looking for something to grab hold off. We'll encourage the plant to  mature as a tower before letting it loose to cover the runner bean support. The Runner beans on this plot were not grown from Rhizomes, but from fresh seed. They  are showing but without the reserve of root energy they are growing much slower than the  established plants. Remember ... Runner Beans are perrenials. Treat them right, you will have a store of this delicious bean ...Forever.  Carrots are doing well. Several patches ensures we don't subject our whole crop to the risk of specialist opportunistic pests.


 My favourite morning sit down, with the sun behind me , a cool shady spot to just watch stuff growing.



 Voila! Hypothesis proven. The established Runner Beans, (their third year), already covering their support.Masses of red and white flowers now appearing. To the left of the beans, Russian Kale , the last remaing plant from the previous season, will be havested this week for immediate resowing. Winter and late Spring greens assured. The Scottish Curly Kale, the Brussel Sprouts and Cabbage haven't missed a beat since we sowed them.


Sunday 12 June 2022

Ayup my darling daughter, Emma Grace.

  Your birthday anniversary on the fourth of June, was not forgotten.As I was about to send greeting, this region at the time was enduring an electrical storm, our Freebox connection was struck by lightning. Many happy returns to look forward to, I don't doubt.  The interest in my inconsequential bloggings has dwindled to zero in Portugal. Synchronous with that stat, three views in GB. Rightly or wrongly, it inspired the notion that you had returned to the secure huddle of your threesome family. I figured that the Portugese interest was generated by your association, awaiting for the long promised "juicy bits" of scandalous intrigue,(I have yet to deliver), Emma-nating from your family's correspondence. There being a threesome duty as yet to be discharged



 I dare say you may be beyond the reach of any of my benign and well intended fatherly advice or moral influence. The not caring,(or giving a "D.M.") isn't something I practice or condone. One's best nature is often invisible to others.  

I wish you were here , my only daughter. Happen you'll be brave enough to share some smiling times with your alienated father, whilst I'm still keeping hold of my perch. We prosper in the hardest times in our domain, always enough to encourage civilised convivial hospitality. Impending doom and self destructive drama are not welcomed as guests. We are prepared for disaster. I am happy to share a slice or two of our good fortune with you anytime. Life is good, health matters deserve a complete natural history, worthy of a book in itself. A lot of good solutions to chronic problems are presenting themselves at the moment. Positive results. Fixing the bits physicians sucessfully ignored for years. I still have a long journey ahead. I won't be leaving this world for a good while yet.

There's stuff that needs to be talked about face to face in a real time occasion. Emails get no response.I don't have phone contact. I doubt I would use it. To easy for well practiced phone manners and habits would substitute for real personna to be recognised. Too easy to take the piss, your brother's estranged behaviour taught me that much. The one glorious real and honest true is what I hope for. "Almost True, Will Not Do..." I trust that you would be equal to the challenge, although wishing, praying and hoping has done little good so far. Other strategies exist however, all is not forlorn.Memory prevails. I'll leave this with a photoof smiling me. I don't " grin" as a rule. Smiling is something a little more subtle even skeletons can grin. Smiling is a Living thing. Let me know if you need my assistance. Don't be afraid to call.


The "Just for You" smiles I will share with you when you get here. Distant Love, to you Emma Grace from your only father.I look forward to your response. In the waiting I'll strive to make the world a better place, plenty of interesting stuff to do in the meantime. Some call it "work" we call it "Living".

Just in case I have a lapse in memory let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Belt and Braces... I will probably remember. They don't let us forget. I usually forget my own birthday. I'll get back to you soon Emma.  Emmail me anytime. Reply garaunteed. 

I. Wazir






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Ayup World...The box got struck by lightning. I hope you found something healthier to occupy your time.

Photograph of the week... Peace in our time

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Curly Kale...Plenty of that good stuff on the way.


Butterhead Lettuce swelling fast.


On the kerb wall of the circle, Strawberries. Comforted by a new straw mulch, a squash cohabits with the Kale. The Kale will keep it's head above the ground cover of leaves. Head in the sun and roots in the cool.


Beyond our neglected Gooseberries. Raspberries, the Spring show now yellowing, ragged. The main crop prepares or fruitful action filling up with good green leaf. Autumn harvest, worth the wait.


Lettuce, Sweetcorn, Swiss Chard, Nasturtiums and sweet Williams occupy a patch two feet in diameter.
Doing a lot with the little we've got.