Autumn garden update
While the trees are making their transition into winter, dropping golden leaves down upon us like rain, over in our garden there is always something to focus on which is just at the beginning of its life cycle, giving a certain spring-like feeling. A feeling I would like to share with you now 🌱
As always, we troop to the garden with the two cats when they are around. They are of course very much a part of this family.
They love this bit of the journey as we pass through a little forest to get to our plot which is around a three minute walk from our home.
On a cloudy day one month before Christmas she's looking a little bare I will admit, but look closer and there you will find the good stuff.
Like these lettuces for example. We have two varieties all over the place so you can be sure I will continue to eat daily salads throughout the winter period.
Some baby peas pushing through the soil here.
Beans are also appearing at this time of year.
Six rows of carrots & beetroot.
The radishes have been producing well all year but their season is pretty much done now.
The raspberries are also done for the year and need trimming, yet still they give me a few more each time I visit.
The ginger is going strong despite the lower temperatures. I will be sure to get some shots of it when I finally dig it up.
One red pepper ready for picking.
The beetroot has been great all year and will keep going through the winter too.
The leeks are rather like the beetroot, not minding the cold at all.
Time to pick these pumpkins I think!
The persimmons are ripe at this time of year and one must pick them before the birds discover this unusually late fruit which for them is a very sweet Christmas present.
I had never experienced the flavour of a persimmon before living in France and I must say they are very lovely. Perfect for smoothies ;)
Here are Esteban & Luna in their little space.
This is their 'second home' which also now comes with two small garden areas in which Esteban has planted beans & peas. I built a decent frame for the peas today.
And the team were pleased with my work :)
So pleased they did a little dance...
...and kissed for the camera.
While baby cat played with the teepee window ;)
Sabrina was super busy today planting things in the beds I have prepared. A row of onions here.
These will go in front of two rows of peas against the fence because this area gets pretty good sun in the winter.
Especially now that I have cut the cherry trees opposite them (after a mental note from a previous post in which I observed that the upper levels were unreachable, leading to much waste).
We are growing peas in these two framed areas.
It is useful with peas & beans to stagger the planting so that the harvesting also lasts multiple months.
This is our winter lunch zone, where the sun is best at this time of year. The lemon & avocado trees you can see in the foreground must be moved into our courtyard before the snow.
Yes, that hammock is a very good place to behave like a child ;)
And boom, down they go.
Fifi has seen it all before. Not bothered.
The trampoline has been a superb investment.
But I want a bigger one for next year!
Sabrina planting more beans here, behind the trampoline.
Don't know how but we have this one carrot here, surrounded by lettuces. A carrot seed drifted in from somewhere. Luna has told us it will be her eating it!
I cleaned out these grow bags (which still had some potatoes in) and put back five baby ones into each with fresh soil, ready for next season.
I added a little more soil and will leave them here till the growth appears. Over time I will add more and more soil, rolling up the sides of the grow bags till they are full. This encourages the growth of potatoes throughout the bag.
Here is what we took home today. I little mixture of things :)
And here are the lemon trees which came with us, hiding against the warmth of our home.
It is pretty cold and windy at the moment. Tomorrow they say snow is coming!
But despite this, when I walk out into my courtyard, it feels a bit like I am somewhere tropical.
Guess the baby bananas won't ripen now.
But you can be sure we will be eating that flower! In a curry with coconut milk.
Love & Light everyone 🌱
I love that your children are around while you are planting. What they see now will have a huge impact on their future. Who knows, maybe one or both of them are going to continue what you are doing. Greetings from the Philippines!
I believe that too. Personally I did not have my first garden till the age of seven and if memory serves, the only thing I grew was potatoes ;) But certainly, the more we do these things as children, the more likely it is to continue into our adult years. Many thanks for your message from the Philippines! My father lived there for many years and I really hope to be able to visit your country one day. Which region are you from?
You are absolutely right. As for me, I am exposed to my father's garden back in my child that is why I am now a vegetable gardener.
You're welcome. What a small world, I never imagined that I will be replying to someone from another country whose father lived in the Philippines.
I am from the province of Nueva Ecija.
You are a vegetable farmer? What a wonderful way to live life. I love growing food but can't really call myself a farmer yet. Will give you a follow and look out for your posts!
Yes, my father had quite a story in the Philippines. The way it is told these days however is not entirely true. Yet the story still remains. Perhaps you may wish to learn more about it? https://peakd.com/conspiracy/@samstonehill/my-amazing-father-was-born-100-years-ago-today-a-story-of-us-corruption-and-betrayal
He lived in Manila but had a great interest in the Ilocos Region for the growing of tobacco. In fact it was him who began the re-claiming of land from Manila bay, upon which the cultural center complex is now built. Many people thought of him as a great man for your country, but there are also those who saw him (and my family) as enemies of your country. Which is partly the reason why I have never been there. Fear of kidnapping!
Anyway, much time has passed since then and I don't have any fear of that any more :)
I too cannot call myself a vegetable farmer yet, I do plant vegetables only on a garden scale (my garden is less than the size of a basketball court). But I call myself a farmer when it comes to rice farming (we have a 1.8-hectare rice farm).
You must be so proud of him (your father). And what a small world, imagine, I exchanged words to the offspring of a man who paved way for the reclaiming of land in Manila Bay and where the Cultural Center of the Philippines is now built.
In our country, we have this "cancer" in our society, where some people are feeling envious and jealous of a man like your father. We also have some people that are not happy with the success of others, instead of being happy about the success of others they will drag you down, I think we call it "crab mentality".
It's cool the kids are such an integral part of the gardens. For me to see planting in November is odd, as the ground will soon be frozen here, eventually several feet down.
Even for me (from the UK originally) planting in Nov feels weird! But I suppose I wasn't much of a gardener back then.
Yes, it has been amazing to see how Esteban has evolved in this garden, now with a clear desire to do it himself. Super great :)
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Next year I promise to grow catnip!!!
You have great garden and its so enjoyfull with smiles your child 😍
Your comment is much appreciated :)
It's sooo nice to be able to enjoy garden fresh veg! I can only do that here a few months of the year. I imagine you know how blessed you are! : D
!LUV
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Yes indeed. I count my blessings every day.
Good to see hive touch $3 again this morning! Looking strong...
Wow, yes! It could be preparing for a break of the 3.4 level set the other day... what's next, 5? 10?
I showed a chart analyst friend of mine the Hive chart today... he said there's nothing stopping a good token with a chart like that from going to 50 or 100. That would put us back in the top 20! I like the sounds of that. But even at $10 it's enough to change things for many of us.
Even with my small amount of skill as a trader it is clear to see how bullish our chart looks. The uptrend since July seems unstoppable!
I had a look at the @esteban-luna account wallet today and they have over $1000 worth now, which is so amazing for them. Especially as they won't know how to spend it for at least another ten years ;)
So yes, hive will change the lives of many! Then these people will tell their friends. Then many of their friends will sign up and those with money will invest directly. And so goes the snowball effect for the price of hive...
Nice, I didn't know you had that other account, it's a great idea. I don't expect to live long enough for my children to need their own tokens. By the time they need them, I think my tokens will belong to them. So everything I do is a nestegg for my 2 adult sons, my young son, and my unborn daughter. But that's just a guess, I might recover from whatever is killing me, and live to see my daughter become a grandmother.
One thing I remind myself often is we can't see a day in front of us, let alone 10 years. At no point in my life have my predictions about the future 10 years out been anywhere near accurate. I imagine it's the same for you. We can imagine and hope and plan and assume but in the end, we are almost always completely wrong. I still believe in visualizing positivity and striving for my goals, but I recognize that we can't know what's coming. Write down what you think is coming even 5 years from now, either in society or your personal life, and come back to it then. There are experts who spend their lives learning how to predict the near future, and even they tend to have near zero success.
Maybe the elite know exactly what is coming. But maybe even they have to deal with uncertainty, and use their computer intelligence algorithms to adjust their strategy on the fly.
For example, in your post on that account for your kids, you were hoping that Steem would become a popular platform and the token could be worth x300 by a certain date. How were you to know Steem would fall apart? But we've got Hive, and maybe that will go x300? I sure hope so, but I really have no idea. Hive may change the lives of many, or it may be a temporary blog site for a few hundred hopefuls. Or something in between? Or something unforeseen.
I think ideas like yours are important because that diversifies our attempts to ensure a good life for our children. You're not putting all your hopes on that one strategy, you have all kinds of ideas and plans like that. Maybe a few silver bars tucked away, maybe some knowledge about growing and preparing food so they can feed themselves as long as the sun shines and rain falls, maybe other cryptos, and so on. Your children are in excellent hands and are lucky to have you :)
Somehow you always manage to get my juices flowing with your comments! haha. I do enjoy our little exchanges here. Am concerned however that you feel something to be killing you? Have you spent time chatting with any of the main accounts behind the naturalmedicine group? If I felt something really off in my body, this would be my first port of call. The combined knowledge of people in that group is more powerful than any doctor or hospital.
Actually no. Before I left London ten years ago I spent time visualising my future life. Specifics are important with things like this, so I included a feeling of wealth, mountains, food abundance, beautiful children, beautiful woman... I even requested a petite brunette, which worked out perfect. Though she did recently dye her hair blonde! haha.
The main reason I left London was because I knew there was a countdown to some big event which would change society and increase control for the elite. I even gave lectures about this, in an attempt to wake people up. The age of decadence is always followed by the age of decline & collapse. And this thing we are experiencing now is an unavoidable consequence of the way in which empires always crumble in the end.
So I couldn't see what the event was going to be but I could see enough of our future to know that I needed to change my life dramatically, having been a city dweller since birth.
The elite wouldn't have to run events like Event 201 if they knew everything. Though they must surely have an exceptionally well informed view of the future and as I have said before, I don't believe this is the first time we have been 'reset' in this way, so I see them as being very good at doing what they do. But they are very bad at understanding humans and the way in which we will react to what is happening.
Five years from now the world will look like a very different place and if I am going to be honest, I prefer not to describe it publicly.
But can I predict what's going to happen next week? Not a chance!
Sabrina in blond is garden friendly 🙂
haha! Yes, she is blonde now ;)
I will be dying mine next week. Blue!
Blue Punkz Sam 😜
These kind of updates always make me smile, as they are filled with an abundance of joy and energy. Also, these two kids of yours...
You and your family are a great example of how to live life!
Hey Vincent! It is a great pleasure to post garden updates and they very often reminds me what I need to get done next ;)
In this case I remembered I needed to cut the ivy off the cherry trees before it takes them over!
All the best to you buddy.