Zucchini Tart for supper and Pickled Zucchini for another time. Now on with my Greek homework. No peace for the wicked!
Voila!
30 Thursday Jun 2016
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in30 Thursday Jun 2016
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inZucchini Tart for supper and Pickled Zucchini for another time. Now on with my Greek homework. No peace for the wicked!
30 Thursday Jun 2016
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inI finally seem to have got it right. I have been harvesting zucchinis for the last week and have just started picking cucumbers. The beans have just started flowering so hopefully I will be able to harvest the beans before we come to Canada for our holiday.
The secret….First of all I halved the size of the garden and left the other half to fallow, as I had noticed that the soil was no longer producing much (not even weeds!) I fertilized with a bought commercial fertilizer…enough of this organic nonsense! I disposed of the automatic drip watering system, which was giving me so much grief and water the plants by hand every morning. I systematically check the plants every morning and administer bug spray when necessary. This just takes a little while, first thing in the morning, before it gets too hot and the results speak for themselves.
I decided to grow the tomatoes in pots on my terrace and will see how that turns out. I also decided to only plant vegetables that are easy to grow and that we like to eat fresh or freeze or pickle.
Now I’m off to make a zucchini tart for supper and some zucchini pickles….I seem to have created even more work for myself! Isn’t that what retirement is all about?
22 Wednesday Jun 2016
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inThere are worse places to run a few errands! I had to pick up our computer from our techie. We had installed Windows 10……big mistake! Our printer would not work, we lost all our contacts on Skype and we had other problems. That is my excuse for the lack of blog posts. So we now have Windows 7 reinstalled and when I get home I will have to try out everything again. Other errands included a trip to the hospital to pick up a friend’s prescription, a trip to the phone shop to find out why our internet phone bill was so expensive……the answer… Too many phone calls to Canada by “you know who”…….anyway this is where I end up for lunch and a swim….literally four feet from the Aegean……with a nice breeze to help keep cool….It has been very hot the last few days with temperatures approaching 40 degrees. Now for a dip….then a small snack.Thought you’d like to see how the other half lives! This huge craft arrived at the same time as my lunch. I’d love to know who is aboard…just being nosy!