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  • Strange days

    Last night the sky turned a bizarre yellow. In its own way it was beautiful, the unusual colour turning the plants in the garden into alien creatures. According to friends who follow such things it’s because the Yanks are spraying sulphur dioxide everywhere instead of slashing their greenhouse emissions. I took a few pics and…

  • The growth of the garden…Early 2017

      We’re going back over the development of the garden since we started. It’s interesting to see how much things have grown and how the plants are protecting the house. This, early 2017 sequence shows the garden pretty well in its final form.

  • Our newest additions 

    People say I’m crazy to plant in this heat. Maybe I am but I can’t help it. The new arrivals are all hot weather plants that are being grown by folks in the general area. Common sense prevails in the choice of plants even if not in the timing. In the pics below, you’ll see…

  • Our first aquaponics strawberries

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  • We’re still green! 

    We’ve had a couple of weeks of super high temperatures and it looks like we’ve got more to come. The garden is still kicking on. There’s still a lot of cool green space within its bounds. It’s taking more water than we’d like to keep it this way so we’re changing some plants to more…