Taters

Today the kids and I planted some early potatoes in the patch - Moonshine, from the bag of the kitchen as the seed potatoes in the shed haven't sprouted yet. We'll see how that goes.

Lemonade

We picked some of the lemons from the tree you can see in the header - some to take to a friend's later, and some for the eldest daughter to make lemonade. It's a bit sour, but very refreshing on an unexpectedly calm and sunny winter day.

Archaeology

We've been in the house a few weeks now, and haven't done much to the garden bar mowing the lawn - a bit of a mission as it's been so wet!

This is how things stood this morning, from the back deck just outside our living/dining room doors. The first project of the day was removing the top part of the awful trellis around the deck, visible on the lower part of this photo. The second project was more exciting. Jules had bought a couple of bags of seed potatoes, so I decided to dig a bed for them and get started with this vegetable thing. I picked the top right corner of the pic, up past the washing line where there were a group of mounds - saving the flatter parts of the lawn for soccer purposes.

The first few turns of the fork brought up nice friable topsoil, but pretty soon I began to encounter metal. I ended up digging up a metal box, in pieces, containing a a heap of old railway related ironmongery and other rubbish. This is a railway cottage after all!

The end result - one potato patch and one pile of rubbish.