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The Rampart Garden and the Jardin
2023
January saw Juan and Jacqu cutting trees down below the kitchen balcony.......not without its challenges...... unlike golf where a shout of "four" is enough ........ a shout of "timber" does not negate working out where the tree will fall. Fortunately these were small trees
My job was to tidy up
Log splitting was undertaken with an axe rather than the mechanical splitter
April is Olive tree pruning time and this year we tried make new trees from cuttings
June 7th and the first broad beans of the season and asparagus
We have now had rain everyday for 2 weeks - some very heavy
thunder and lightening storms. It feels like more rain than we had
all of last year
July is also Abricorts time with loads coming form Rudolph - delivered to the door and jam making initiated
When Sam, Anna and Alex were here we set up a mint tea production line
and nothing like 40 minutes from the ground to the table
When Juan was out in August he dug holes to plant the 3 cypres trees in the jardin and bring up water from the fountain to the rampart garden
August is the time to harvest sunflower seeds for next year
Into September and preparing logs for the winter
The pears and figs were bounteous this year
As were tomatoes
The end of the year saw one tree coming down in the mistral and I cut down a second dead one. It was very tall and it was necessary to get the angle of fall correct - it came down perfectly.
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