Well, it is the 4th of December 2011 - the weather is amazing - 20 degrees - nearly 70 degrees in "English"!!! It has been a busy day today - the garden takes a lot of work. The tractor ploughed the land around the Olive Trees yesterday - in preparation for the rain - making sure the olives get plently of water before the long, dry summer starts. The olives produced here are totally natural - they do not get watered all summer or sprayed with pesticides so are totally organic. This is why we produce such excellent quality extra virgin and virgin olive oil - very high quality soap and washing machine detergent and last not least - St John;s Wort oil. I must say, so far, it has been a fantastic winter - it has actually been like spring since October.
Today I started cuttings off of Geraniums, Australian Basil (that grows into a very tall bush), Sage, Oregano, Lavendar - could say it was a herb day today!!! As the land had been ploughed though it was really easy to get the soil - which made a change - normally you need a pick axe!!! MInd you it was easy filling the wheelbarrow but I could not push it - had to get my son, Stephen, to do that....I even found some celery growing in some of my flower pots so I transplanted that as well. I must have done at least 30 plants - a good start...
It gets dark quite early now - about 5pm - so I knocked off at 4.30ish to go and collect some dry twigs to light the wood burner for the evening. Last night I started the fire with dry lavender twigs - the house smelt beautiful. Tonight I have collected dried lavender and sage - amazing aroma - beats airfreshner any day!
So much to do and not enough time....I really need two more hours of daylight! I still have loads of cuttings to do - 2 trees to move, start planting the natural borders around the property (4000 sq mtrs), still a lot of weeds to clear and, of course, the leaves to clear up and start the compost heap.....
I will have to go and get on with all the things I did not do - ironing, washing, cleaning (lust boiling lavender and sage on the wood burner to clean the furniture)!!! I hope I will be able to keep this diary up and I hope you enjoy reading it. Gardening in Greece is hard - it is trial and error. I have tried everything and made millions of erros I can assure you. One plant I can not grow is a Gardenia and I can not work out why???
If anyone has any suggestions - email me.Well, after looking into this a bit more - I suppose that this is the best place to put the diary..not quite got the hang of all this yet - trial and error - like the plants really!!!
Today I started cuttings off of Geraniums, Australian Basil (that grows into a very tall bush), Sage, Oregano, Lavendar - could say it was a herb day today!!! As the land had been ploughed though it was really easy to get the soil - which made a change - normally you need a pick axe!!! MInd you it was easy filling the wheelbarrow but I could not push it - had to get my son, Stephen, to do that....I even found some celery growing in some of my flower pots so I transplanted that as well. I must have done at least 30 plants - a good start...
It gets dark quite early now - about 5pm - so I knocked off at 4.30ish to go and collect some dry twigs to light the wood burner for the evening. Last night I started the fire with dry lavender twigs - the house smelt beautiful. Tonight I have collected dried lavender and sage - amazing aroma - beats airfreshner any day!
So much to do and not enough time....I really need two more hours of daylight! I still have loads of cuttings to do - 2 trees to move, start planting the natural borders around the property (4000 sq mtrs), still a lot of weeds to clear and, of course, the leaves to clear up and start the compost heap.....
I will have to go and get on with all the things I did not do - ironing, washing, cleaning (lust boiling lavender and sage on the wood burner to clean the furniture)!!! I hope I will be able to keep this diary up and I hope you enjoy reading it. Gardening in Greece is hard - it is trial and error. I have tried everything and made millions of erros I can assure you. One plant I can not grow is a Gardenia and I can not work out why???
If anyone has any suggestions - email me.Well, after looking into this a bit more - I suppose that this is the best place to put the diary..not quite got the hang of all this yet - trial and error - like the plants really!!!
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