Our day out

We meet up
with
a farmer
from up the road,
who has kindly
offered us some
sweet potoato
slips.


He shows us
the farm
and how
he plants
and cares for
tomatoes,



















cive,










supplements,













sweet potatoes,






















carrot beds,












6 week sweet potato
slips,











cabbage,












beds for yam,

the view.

Our

new

sweet potato

beds,

made on our

return.

and

my alternative

weed

suppressant,

Padaje leaf,

to

Gramoxone.

(Paraquat)

Baby steps

Yesterday we made
some more beds for
cabbage,
treating ants' nests
with 'Sevens'
when we
encountered
them.






I sowed about
80 little plants
and T cleaned
the next area.











The dasheen
he planted
is looking
very happy
after all the
rain that fell
last night.







Later, whilst
T burns old
wood from Ivan,
I get to play
in the cocoa









and
down
by
the
river.

A bit behind with the blog but not the work.

February 13th 2008
T forks around the
blugga trees
above the river
where the soil
is soft and sandy
and where i make
and sow
the carrot beds.

T makes a drain
for the spring,
where he finds
a loca, a river serpent,
that I am too slow
to photograph,



before it disappears
beneath the mud.



We transfer


the tomato seedlings


to their new home


above the mango trees.


I hope they will be


happy here,






it is a bit hot






and exposed.




February 20th 2008


T cleared the vine
and bush from the
hill below the
sentinel stones and I cut
bamboo sticks for
the tomato plants.


T in his new






Valentine's





garden hat.









February 25th 2008.
We cleared this
area of stones and bush
and removed
old and diseased
fig trees.
T forked and I made
a bed for rocket.


T threw together


















another shade/shelter,

planted dasheen in
the drain while I thinned
the carrots, that were planted
by the blugga trees
justbehind him
in this picture








and these strange looking
bugs
were relocated.

Will look them up here.

Update feb 7th 2008

We are now at the far end
of the garden, by the river,
as it loops around to leave us
and heads off down to the falls.












I clear and clean
between the fig trees

whilst T tackles

the hill.

When he reaches

the top, a surprise

is waiting, an old iron

axe head is found beneath

a stone, in a hole

in the bigger of the two

large sentinel stones,

at the top of the hill.

So we wonder,

who it was that hid this here,

when and why?

The hole is deep and full

of water.

and the view from here

is refreshing.

First sharpen your cutlass....

This is how
every day
in Corn Buck
begins,
T sharpens our
cutlasses
with his file
and I drink coffee
and look around.
It is
beautiful,
every day
brings
new surprises.

we are

below

the three old

mango trees,

we can hardly

believe.

It has been

one month,

(not including

days off

and teeth

pulled out)

since we began

this project.

So here we go again................

Starting above
the pear tree
by the river
























clean,
clean,
clean









across to the fig trees
before the mangoes
with the river
on the left.













T excells,
through the bush
and the vine.