Cold

Thirty-nine degrees this morning

Wooden bench

So the river brings me this nice weathered slab of something, and I think wow that would make a nice bench. So I cut holes in it with a spoonbit drill, and hewed this twisty chunk of cherry into billets for the legs of it, which I then shaved down to fit with a couple of drawknives, and drive home with a mallet. No modern tools at all.

Spanish Black

This is a monster radish!

It's neighbors are flowering this monster just keeps making more root

Asparagus berries

Spanish Black

This is a monster radish!

It's neighbors are flowering this monster just keeps making more root

Cotton

So William has produced!

One boll is opened, the other not yet


John mandeville, writing in 1350, speaks o wool grown on trees, and here is a print from his book. The boughs are flexible enough that the tiny lambs can graze

The seeds are buried in the cotton, in this case there were six in this quarter of the boll

Harvest

A modest one, but yummy

White carrot, alpine strawberry, Portuguese kale

Here be me deck prism

Celebrate the end if summer

With fire!

Plantings

Bed five gets three rows o Spanish black radish, the earlier planting of this is let go to seed

Planting

Bed ten gets peas with garlic chives up the center