Self sufficiency

You have all probably gotten used to my travel and music related posts and indeed I am right now in Atlanta, Georgia on a 10 day trip to see a few Stones shows!

But in between all those fun activities you will generally find me in the garden. Indeed, I have been working on the garden a lot in May. 

Tending to the vegetable patch - mainly rhubarb and berries (red, black and blue) plus planting runner beans for the summer.

In the greenhouse it is getting wild with tomatoes, peppers and piment (chilli). This year we have, for the first time, managed to grow seedlings from tomato seeds we recuperated and dried from a particular species we ate and liked last year.  It seems to be working well.

Elsewhere we have strawberries, grapes and figs, cherries and plums  all starting to come to life. A retirement goal was to become more self sufficient and it certainly seems to be on track.

Another side project I have started is to make an inventory of all the trees and plants we have in the garden.  I am using Google lens to identify them and it’s proving to be quite accurate. I am a man that likes a list, so that will be a future post!

That’s it for now. Will be back with more updates soon!