Autumn

While the sun was still shining we actually got our act together and sorted out the garden, with a push from a friend who dug out the weeds and brought us lettuce, leek and spinach plants.  Thank you universe for friends who love to dig and plant and prune.

Picking up a pile of wood from the olive groves in preparation for winter fires

Yeh, a truck load of 'garden' rubbish gets hauled away

Here's our young Pakistani helper

He gathered a stack of 'treasures' from around the perimeter of the yard and piled it up ready for the truck to take it away

Sob, a clear back yard.  It's the first time in ten years I've seen the wall behind that grapefruit tree

Lettuces planted in neat rows

Anyone want a bag of grapefruit.  We'll try once again in the spring to graft a branch of a mandarine and orange tree onto the grapefruit.  They didn't take last time we tried

Now we've got neat rows of spinach and leeks as well and after two days of rain the lettuces have shot up and soon will be big enough to eat.