As some of you may know, I have been composting all my vegetable waste, tea bags and coffee grinds and such, for the last couple of years. Today we dug out some of the lovely old compost from the compost heap, which was beautiful, dark and sweet smelling. Eric our gardener turned the hard ground and worked in the compost, and prepared neat rows for our new planting. With Spencer strapped securely on my back in the Chinese carrier that I made for him, I planted some cheerful rainbow spinach, various types of tomatoes, aubergines, sweet Spanish peppers, sun flowers, coriander and sweet basil, adding to our existing collections of chicken safe vegetables - artichokes, celery, leeks and onions.
While turning the soil, our 11 free-ranging chickens, were only too happy to be scratching around us, looking for signs of earth worms. They have been brilliant at giving us daily fresh eggs. But they are absolute terrorists for my lettuce and seedlings. So Duncan built me this lovely little green house for the tender, young stuff, out of a recycled old window - I am really grateful for my new green house - and am looking forward be able to gather frisee, lettuce and baby Japanese spinach fresh from the garden. As I inspected each newly planted seedling and admired our day's effort, I filled my pocket with fresh thyme, and pondered what lovely dishes I can come up with for my family in the very near future!
Still warm eggs...
Breakfast time
The boys
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