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A week ago the weather seemed Spring-like and I got out and started clearing away the winter weeds, nasturtiums and sorrel/oxalis
Unfortunately it wasn't Spring and since then it's been cold and wet. Everything was left till the sun came out again.
Today we have another storm. Thank goodness we got more wood for the fire. We were just given a fright by the blaring of the Civil Protection Alert for our area. There's a bit of thunder rumbling around and the sky is dark red with clouds full of Saharan dust. I won't be moving far from the fire today
Garden bits and bobs
Last year's flowers flourishing
Love the colour
And the red of the hot peppers, mint just starting to show
Empty winter pots filled with garden deco to deter cats
The tomato plant that grew from a buried greek salad not only survived the winter but now has 2 or 3 small tomatoes. Just amazing
Old and new
Last years hot peppers and christmas bulb still wrapped in silver paper
this years basil and marigold plants
I started the clearing then yesterday young Sani from Pakistan cleared the rest. What took me 3 days took him one hour. He shaved the earth and even got rid of all the garden waste
Sani with his permanent smile completing an awesome clean up
The cats new toilet
They make my blood boil
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I am amazed at the tomatoes ... in April!!
ReplyDeleteSo was I!! Small and green but definitely there and a few flowers. I hope they survive this storm
DeleteSome things just prove how resilient life can be. We could all do with a young Sani.
ReplyDeleteHe was so cheerful and worked away creating paradise from a jungle. We paid him a big bonus
DeleteI love your rustic bowl with the red peppers etc. And don't forget that you can eat Oxalis leaves; but not too many!
ReplyDeleteI'll eat the nasturtium leaves but II'm not too keen on the idea of oxalis leaves. Except for revenge . Darn weeds
DeleteThere are no signs of spring here either, it's been raining all night and there's a sandstorm warning. Here too, these lilac flowers have bloomed, seemingly out of nowhere. The color is truly magnificent.
ReplyDeletei imagine your sandstorms are worse than ours but they leave one helluva mess
DeleteThere was mention of the red dust from the desert affecting Greece on our 'Stuff' online news channel today! Cats doing shits in the garden used to annoy the hell out of me too... now we have rocks and pots and they can't do it! Yaaa. We are heading into winter, it's getting cold. Freaking shame, cos we hardly had a summer.
ReplyDeleteI might have to resort to covering some areas of the garden with netting if I want to plants anything. Still too damn cold to think about that though
DeleteI must check Stuff. It's my main NZ news source. Crete had the worst. They to close the airport
The Sahara dust is competing with the Arctic cold here. The Arctic is winning so far. Horrible cold day again.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely that Mother Nature blessed you with a surprise tomato plant.
ReplyDeleteOur lovely young man who has been clearing our garden beds of weeds, found two tomato plants in the garden along the fence. He left them there thinking I had planted them
I didn’t and we joked about the reasons they wanted to escape the veggie garden lol
At least all the water was able to penetrate the soil and get it ready for the summer growth.
Well I hope it did any way