things happening in the garden

A year on the garden is a little different, The cabin de bosque is progressing, there is a deck, a bit of a wall or two, a log walkway across to a tight group of three trees and a bit of climb inside them, we have a cargo net hammock and Sam is up a tree here starting to make a rope swing, the lense refracted a handy little arrowhead pointing at him.
Oh look there he is again he has two bits of thick string, a sawn in half log and some good knots as climbing aids to get up a tree that has no branches, drat I put the safety net on the wrong side of the tree ah well never mind Sam is very competent at not falling.

And in the veg garden.....
The pumpkin patch is doing well we have about 18 pumpkins so far and more on the way, the leaves are starting to die back and the first pumpkins are nearly ripe, we also have loads of butternuts and turban looking ones and found our first cucumber today - thanks to Shirley for the plant.


Cabbage patch coming along nicely and hundreds of leeks are about to go in to the fresh dug land at the far end.
Sweet peas growing really well, its a shame we have not got smellovision yet- they smell wonderful as do the Nicotina below.
This is where they mostly start out - in the entrance to the below the butchers shop bit that gets sun most of the day but also is sheltered. Although we inherited some plant pots with the house Jenny uses loads of milk cartons, yoghurt pots and all sorts of other recycled stuff instead of plant pots. Then she puts them in a big pile and uses them again and again.
Barbecue corner is slowly turning into a Zen garden according to some locals, you prob need to be there to see/feel what they mean.
There is always wood needing cut and Senor Madera de Mar is still protecting the hens although he does not do much wood chopping.
We had just started cooking the corn on the cob and the beans had just gone into the freezer when I thought about taking a snap of today's haul. We have been getting a bowl full of strawberries like that every day since late May, its a deep bowl, around a kilo a day I think- not bad for a 6 euro outlay on some scabby dried up little plants. Lemons are not so good this year we prob have around 30, the great wind did a lot of damage we are lucky to have any really as many people lost their lemon trees. The peppers are mixed black ones from jungleseeds, they vary from all black to red and partly green and its a bit of a lottery as to whether they are picante or dulce, that adds an interesting edge to cooking.