beautiful day

A wonderful day, all of it in the garden, preparing beds for peppers, carrots,


T built a shed below the Golden Apple tree, posts provided by the nutmeg and the golden apple using the shed from the previous garden- another story- the sun shone all day but with shade and lime juice, bakes and cheese, X ena and T for company, astrologically not a day for planting carrot, seeds and fruit, but we will see!

Planted carrots in two beds by the previous one, which is doing well, transferred peppers from T's bed in the ashes to two beds above the tomatoes and three by the carrots.

Beans are doing well, almost up to the top of the bamboo, cucumbers are inviting sticks and the tomatoes are thriving


a surprise of pineapples, plants that were given to us before Ivan by a lovely man from Mt., Granby,







Beans!

Peppers!

Shed!!!

Slow but steady!

Due to work and other things nothing much has been done in the garden this week. I have planted some more tomatoes. The carrots have come up and the pepper seedlings, which were planted in an old 'burn' spot-in the ashes of cutlassed grass and old wood, are almost big enough to plant out. The beans plants have started to climb their bamboo sticks and T planted okra in the two remaining beds between the sweet potato and the beans. The turmeric and the ginger have come up but the 'come and poke'- locally known as 'common pork' ( a local small leafed basil) but I misunderstood the pronunciation, isn't looking too healthy, neither the big bay tree that T came back with when he cut the bamboo. The carrots remain protected under the coconut palm fronds so that they don't get washed away in the heavy downpours that we are experiencing at the moment.

The children are all enjoying climbing the French Cachou trees , the fruit tasting best when eaten straight from the tree!


Sunday was delightful because we went to the forestry and came home with over 30 coffee plants, very small ones that we found hidden in the grass below the tree. I put them in pots below the shade net, in soil from our garden.

Carrots!

The lunar calendar from astrologie-info.com says today is good for planting roots so I made a small 4'x4' bed in the bottom of the garden, and sowed the seeds about 9" apart in rows, not scattered like T would prefer. T came and helped with the paths and I used the cutlass to 'thing' the soil which seemed crumbly and moist, good i hope.
Also gave the remaining beans their sticks, moled the tomatoes and the cucumbers and transplanted parsley around the edges of the tomato beds.
Filled two plastic bin bags with garbage, we ate French Cashou which were falling from the tree but we couldn't pick them because of the mybone nest.
T made new beds above the tomatoes, will be really rich soil, for peppers maybe.

Think we will need about 50 more compost bins and then, how to fill them? T says he'll try to get some crates.