This week

This week we continued
picking sorrel and cutlassing
the land at the top, picked
limes, citronella, ripe fig
and okra, dasheen, sweet
potato weeded and 'bombed'
the basil, sowed some purple
okra and cleaned drains.











We don't know what this
vine is but it has a tuber
that looks a little like a
yam only smaller, so it
was spared.














The grapefruit are almost full,
first time this tree
has born fruit.
















T forked new beds for
cabbage above the
mango trees which we
dressed with the pen
manure from the old
cow pen by the ravine.
The land is still very wet
from all the rain we have had.
The basil was not happy.

Sales

T leaves for town to sell basil, parsley, big thyme,
common pork, seasoning peppers and okro.
Town is full of people selling. Cabbage, yam, sweet potato,
green fig, banana. We sell herbs. By the bag. No scale,
a lighter load and, for now, no competition.

Of Big Thyme and carrot beds

It was cool on reaching Corn Buck today
and refreshingly dry following the thunderous
downpours that we have been experiencing
recently.

I planted some more beds of big thyme,
an undervalued plant, in my opinion.
I much prefer it to the traditional bushy
thyme, both for flavour and appearance.
It is also very easy to grow.









T excelled himself, as usual,
creating new beds for carrots,
sowing two varieties at the same
time,











working on the principal
that if one fails the other will not.

The importance of drains

For as long as anyone can remember there have been drains in Corn Buck.
On a daily basis, they sometimes present something of an obstacle, when
passing from one part of the garden to another, their being quite steep in places,
but




















after five minutes of heavy rain, we remember their importance and are glad
that we erred on the side of caution and kept them clean and, relatively weed free.



















Only when the rain falls does it become apparent where a little maintenance or alteration is necessary.



















The irrigation pipe looks slightly redundant,



















luckily T took the main pipe out of the river,
just as the down pour started.



















And as soon as it starts, it stops, but we will not be crossing the river today.

Maintenance

Okra and dwarf beans being given a little encouragement after weeding and moling.

Liquid Gold

The first application of our very own pen manure.
No, not a misspelling of hen, pen manure is what you get
when you have a cow tethered in your land

This morning

T cutlassed and made new beds for sweet potato, while I sowed rocket seeds, sunflowers and groomed some fig trees.