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Loving that it’s now, definitively spring. Feels & looks like it. & the roadside daffs are everywhere. Having had a week of work and garden I realised I literally hadn’t left the house for 5 days yesterday so walked up the beach to the local pub with the wife. Clear views across to #Normandy past #Gorey and the castle. Hilarious local #Jersey politics: sign put up by a local land owner to annoy his notoriously mean neighbour who shouts at ‘trespassers’ trying to get down his path to the beach.
@JimmyB
Delightful. What a fabulous place you live in.
I’m really understanding just what the warm water and air currents circulating the planet do for you. You’re 9 deg lat N of us and we are easily a month behind in season.
@IcooIey when that Greenland ice melt really gets going - and I’ve heard estimates as soon as next 5 years, as long as end of this century - then we get Canadian weather. We might wish we’d actually listened to Greta at that point!
Been out collecting seaweed this morning: what a joy! The early morning swimmer came to chat, plus the dog walkers. So sociable if you get up early. Island life is good sometimes
@JimmyB
Oh your arbor is looking great! It will be spectacular in a few years.
What do you do with the seaweed? Is it edible? For mulch? Fertilizer?
@IcooIey yes - I really hope so. Planting trees and doing big garden projects - always an act of both faith and hope!
The seaweed is the best fertiliser I know of - and yes, it’s a great mulch. Tomatoes and potatoes absolutely love it. But the fruit trees too. So I use it super abundantly.
#gardening
The salt always used to worry me but a) I try to take it only after it’s been on the beach for a week or more b) it’s rained a bit and then c) I don’t remulch the same area the next year. I try to do every 3rd year.
The local potato farmers used to lay ‘vrac’ on their fields every single year - big tradition in #Jersey - so I think it’s probably ok. But I have asked myself the question…