A Permaculture blessing by Joel Salatin

May all your carrots grow long and straight,
may the foxes be struck blind by your chickens,
may your customers love cooking your food in their kitchens,
may the rains be gentle on your pastures,
may your fields grow with soil,
may your earthworms dance with celebration,
may the wind be always at your back,
your children rise up and call you blessed,
and may we all leave a better world than we found…

Rain and Mist

The wet season continues affecting on the tomatoes somewhat but the sweet corn is loving it, if I brush a stalk a cloud of pollen is released.

I had one day of sunshine and then the rain and mist returned. This is expected to continue until Autumn.

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Rain, Colour and Song

There has been weeks of rain and I am having doubts about some of the veges, the tomatoes and others may succumb to mould if it keeps up. The Met Bureau says that it will continue until Autumn (March).

I may have to stop planting anything that doesn’t like wet feet and just control the weeds until the wet season is over

In the meantime here are a few splashes of colour from a rare sunny day.

Here are some potted pansies on my front veranda. I love looking at them when I walk up to the front door.
 

Some bright nasturtiums from the back yard, they are nice in a salad.

 

A few Snap Dragons in a pot on the front veranda.

Here is a beautiful Ivy Geranium from Hely’s. It sits on a table on the back veranda where I have a coffee.

The honeysuckle and jasmine are in full blossom and the perfume fills the air on still mornings.

As I write this I have been serenaded by a butcher bird sheltering from the rain on the back veranda, the song has been going on for over an hour. I am blessed. Butch looks a bit wet but a Pavarotti nevertheless.

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