The winds of Crete struck up again and, having avoided any damage so far, our luck ran out when a large branch fell from an olive tree outside mom's apartment and landed on the car. Thankfully it only broke the wing mirror cover but it had us worried for a moment.
The weather was weird. Like a nuclear winter.
We got 5 more chickens (for food) this week. We're trying to colour code them so we got white ones
The avocados are now in full bloom and the local bee population is busy cross fertilizing. Avocados are either male or female and this is very critical to the trees. I thought it was a buzzing from the power cables at first but it was thousands of bees in the trees.
We moved the older chicks to the (disused) toilet block outside the house and let Banna wander around the "house field" for a bit of grazing. When Viki went to give him the evening feed his eyes were swollen and bloodshot. I went to Kalyves after the feeds were done to get saline to wash them the following morning but when we got there it had disappeared and he seemed fine. Viki washed his eyes with the saline anyway and we hope it was just some pollen or that he brushed against one of the flowering avocados. Avocado, and particularly the stone, are poisonous to almost all living things. It seems that its only us humans who can eat them. Thankfully pigs can eat them if they are boiled into a mush. Its the only way we can get rid of them at the moment and it does fatten the pigs.
There was a huge fire midweek in the area around Ramni. Force 10 winds swept the fire through a large area and there was considerable damage. Some people lost all their chickens and rabbits and many olive trees were severely damaged.
Having put some onions and potatoes in after we ploughed the vegetable patch, we now felt confident to add another row of onions and start planting the salad patch.
We bought some tomato seedlings from the suppliers and made some supports from the bamboo which grows on the edges of the field.
Viki made some more cages in the afternoon while I was at rehearsal with the band. We discovered that the old steel gate at the farm fitted perfectly as a support for the climbers (cucumber, courgette, pepper)
Nasurtians are planted as companions for the climbers
... and French Marigolds for the tomatoes, along with basil.
And that is all we've done this week.
Its Saturday again.
The weather was weird. Like a nuclear winter.
We got 5 more chickens (for food) this week. We're trying to colour code them so we got white ones
The avocados are now in full bloom and the local bee population is busy cross fertilizing. Avocados are either male or female and this is very critical to the trees. I thought it was a buzzing from the power cables at first but it was thousands of bees in the trees.
We moved the older chicks to the (disused) toilet block outside the house and let Banna wander around the "house field" for a bit of grazing. When Viki went to give him the evening feed his eyes were swollen and bloodshot. I went to Kalyves after the feeds were done to get saline to wash them the following morning but when we got there it had disappeared and he seemed fine. Viki washed his eyes with the saline anyway and we hope it was just some pollen or that he brushed against one of the flowering avocados. Avocado, and particularly the stone, are poisonous to almost all living things. It seems that its only us humans who can eat them. Thankfully pigs can eat them if they are boiled into a mush. Its the only way we can get rid of them at the moment and it does fatten the pigs.
There was a huge fire midweek in the area around Ramni. Force 10 winds swept the fire through a large area and there was considerable damage. Some people lost all their chickens and rabbits and many olive trees were severely damaged.
We bought some tomato seedlings from the suppliers and made some supports from the bamboo which grows on the edges of the field.
Viki made some more cages in the afternoon while I was at rehearsal with the band. We discovered that the old steel gate at the farm fitted perfectly as a support for the climbers (cucumber, courgette, pepper)
Nasurtians are planted as companions for the climbers
... and French Marigolds for the tomatoes, along with basil.
And that is all we've done this week.
Its Saturday again.
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