More indoor crops
Eh? Indoors? That looks more like the great outdoors to me.
And you are right. We did a sneaky out of our one kilometre zone a few days ago. We hadn’t planned it. We are after all being obedient citizens during this lockdown. But the lure of the nightingales were too much.
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There comes a point on our path through the forest around the mountain where you can sensibly plod home….
Or walk here.
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The hamlet of Boucharnoux. Just gorgeous.
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It’s the one delight of this part of the Ardèche; the landscape changes so often at such short intervals.
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I try not to stop too often on my fast walk each day. If I slow I will notice how painful the forest trail is underfoot. But a prairie with field scabious…
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I did use a filter to make this a bit warmer in colour. But sometimes during this relentless Covid lockdown you can feel down…
So. To the potting shed.
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The crops are coming along. I’ve potted up all the plants I bought. Using, eking out the last of the compost.
So they can sit and mooch in the shed for another ten days or so. Time enough, I hope for the last raised beds to be built.
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And while I’m waiting I can watch the grass growing.
I sowed grass seeds in trays which feels indulgent. But there are so many ants about, I don’t have enough grass seed to risk sowing it into the new path and see it looted and taken to a nest.
I’m going to rue covering the seeds with the vermiculite.
Or letting so many yellow irises flower.