Comfort @ Lottington

You Know What Thursday Means

Running a little late as I was waiting for the Blur to get on enough clothes to on to go out in the rain, we made it to lotty just in time for John to arrive with the pork cobs mmmmm. Thank you John for the cob. Just as he was leaving John asked if I could spray the vegetable spaghetti, as it is being over run with black fly. That meant fixing the bottle, which I did with a bit of strimmer line and some black tape. Not sure how much salt I was supposed to use, but if it works on the flies the way it worked on my hands the problem will be long gone. In the few days that they've been around, the peppers and chilis have grown quickly and there are lots of smaller ones emerging now. I cant wait to be able to cook with them. Im hoping when I go look today all the flies will be dead (or at least gone.) It was only a quick visit in the morning, knowing we would be back later.

Chairs And Boxes

After dropping the Blur off at her new school for half an hour I made my way to lotty to find out why the car was so full. I arrived to find John unpacking boxes into the greenhouse. These boxes are going to be our new mushroom planters. One in the hut, one in the shed and one in the greenhouse. John read somewhere that once the mushrooms start to send out spores they cant get wet, which may have been what ruined the last lot. Heres hoping they do better this time. John also brought an office chair as they'd gotten new ones at work. Now its going to be even harder to get myself moving after sitting on that for a bit.

Having not much to do we had a last walk around, picking as we went along. The Blur, back from school by this point, was interested in the sweetcorn, so John picked her one off and let her have a try. They're still small at the moment but theres noting wrong with baby sweetcorn. Last year John has two cobs per plant, this year most of them seem to have at least 3-4 which makes the estimate of 120 cobs slightly low. The Blur also ate a radish, which was fine until the pepperiness kicked in, I dont think she'll be trying that again in a hurry.

It seems we got our hedge and alleyway sorted just in time, and as John said 'thats it for another year.' I hope so as it was one of the hardest jobs iv had to do there so far.