Low last night 45
High today 80

Hilltop Garden – full with strawberries and Austrian Winter Peas. All the animals love those winter peas!! Need to plant more!  Here is the original Tractor One that we move around the Hilltop Garden.  The resident Orpington chickens are in charge of weed control!

 

 

West Veggie Garden –  Looking through the  Bean Wall where the hyperactive lima bean vines grew this year.  (No beans to speak of, just vine!)   The Pigeon Pea Hedge is visible with the kiwi vine beyond.  No kiwi as yet, even though we have male and female plants.  The rabbits love the pigeon pea…ducks and chickens not so much.

 

 

North Orchard – One more Hibiscus to harvest then chop them down. Some of the flowers got moldy…probably left on the branches too long. Hard to keep up.

 

 

Tea Garden & Orchard – The Tea Garden needs spiffying-up.  The pink whirly gigs, parsley, and blue fescue grasses are all gone.   The thyme didn’t do much this season…probably because it has been so dry.    We have not had any rain to speak of all year so far.  We only got a 1/2 inch in Hurricane Hermione!!  But, Marjorie is in full bloom…lovely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shade Garden – beautiful Cattleya Orchids this season…6 blooms!!

 

 

Greenhouse and Seed Starts – planted Basil,  Hot Peppers, Banana Peppers, Creepy Thyme, and Sorrel Hibiscus.  Out of all that 1 Hibiscus germinated.  It’s us against the squirrel. We sow the seeds and he digs them up as we sleep!  The seeds are probably scared to sprout!

Happy Homesteading,
T.