Im sorry this blog is a little bit delayed being updated, things have been a tad on the hectic side here, Rik has been at the hospital, he spent a couple of days in absolute agony not giving in to my pleas of going to get it looked at (stomach pain) when finally it got so bad he had to go to Coimbra Emergency... they did all kinds of tests and explored places you'd never want things poked in...
And decided he had a bowel infection... they have no idea how or where it came from... not our water or food as Im fine... Its not a food poisoning or tummy bug type thing... no vomiting or the other end... just incredable pain in the gut... well they acually did nothing... to make him better just told us what it wasnt...
He's home now, and Ive been witchying him with herbal remedies and tisanes and he's much better now... drama over thank God...
The weather isnt great... a bit wet now and still more to come I think, the garden is stumbling along, we dont seem to have the heat to germinate stuff very well at the moment, all the peas, beans and beets are very sporadic... big gaps, I have to keep going round and poking the spare seed in the gaps... and hoping... we also have a frost three nights running which has not done the spuds much good... they are not dead, but the tops are burnt a bit...
Ive even had probs germinating the squash seeds this year... very slow... Im poking extra seed in all over the place , if it all suddenly takes off we'll have tons... but somehow I dont think so...
But we have lettuce ready to eat, the onions seem to be coming on well, as do the cabbage, and broccoli, the carrots are showing through too... so we wont starve...
Bookings for the cottage are very low this year so we'll need the veg more than ever this winter...
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