tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post1262866205331675370..comments2023-11-03T10:09:31.148+01:00Comments on My Galician Garden: 2017 ProjectsCocohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-38282977522367151872017-01-23T10:07:51.004+01:002017-01-23T10:07:51.004+01:00Hi Chris!
Well, you know what they say the Gods d...Hi Chris!<br /><br />Well, you know what they say the Gods do when you announce your plans. I believe India Flint basically invented the eco print technique, though there are others now making a name for themselves. Lots of interesting effects using eucalyptus, just not the type that grows around these parts. But that won´t stop me from trying.<br /><br />Good Lord, Quentin, I´m gobsmacked! The Seymours!! Wow.<br /><br />Fisterra would be a very, very different kettle of fish in terms of climate (hee). I have thought of watercress in our little creek, but there are a lot of cows upstream, which gives me pause.<br /><br />It sounds like your place is coming along by leaps and bounds, doubly difficult given the 2 language problems with Spanish and Gallego. Well done you. I have to get out there and get the pruning and digging done but the cold weather has me a bit discouraged. Now I´ll have to get stuck in! I encourage you to have a look at some of the others on my bloglist who have inspired me.<br /><br />Thank you for your lovely comment and I wish you all the best for 2017! If we ever get out to the coast, I may bring bags for seaweed.<br /><br />Cheers!Cocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-28793125358244120162017-01-22T22:45:51.193+01:002017-01-22T22:45:51.193+01:00Hi, your Galician Garden site is amazing and has g...Hi, your Galician Garden site is amazing and has given me a lot of guidance in the last few months. I finished my Camino in June and have since been building an Organic Vegetable Garden (from Scratch) for a Pilgrim community.. I still speak very little Spanish and translating everything has been very trying. To have you on my side for the past seven months has been a Godsend. I were bought up on an Organic sheep farm on the Romney marsh in Kent. John and Sally Seymour were family friends and were great at instructing my family in the self sufficency movement and We would teach and instruct Wwoofers many weekends of the year...if not all weekends of the year. Moving into our garden in Fisterra was a very slapdash event as in June, I were already into the Summer season by a month.I pulled it off in complete style to the astonishment of all the local farmers...who at the start, in my Kentish fashion,thought I were a mad man. They were even more shocked when my garden didn´t just flower but produced 10s of kilos of veg in just two months. I followed your lead and saught out local farmers for manure and built raised and walled beds, but the Galician wind still wreaked havoc through my pumpkins. But now I think I have it almost sorted. I have just layed in three hundred Baraka potatoes and I am building chicken wire fences around all 40 metres of plants, they are doubled with lettuce and radishes. One line of Potatoes I am building a natural old Irish technique of tower using Seaweed, straw and soil held in by blackberry brambles to prevent slugs and snails climbing. My next project I have just been awarded a 40m x 10m plot next to a spring stream and I´m setting up a Watercress bed and raised pepper beds feeding 10 to 12 other tables. Its still in design stages. I wish you all the best of luck in 2017 and just want to say great blog and Thankyou for the Ideas and just being here...as long as there is someone else...I´m not completely nuts. Quentin, The world family, Fisterra. x Quentinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14058479930500576781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-87863986684816403192017-01-21T10:58:00.518+01:002017-01-21T10:58:00.518+01:00Hi Coco,
Well done with those plans. I really lov...Hi Coco,<br /><br />Well done with those plans. I really loved the India flint dyes. Some of those leaves looked like pin oak leaves. Nice stuff. Construction doesn't have to leave a mess, but generally it does. Engineers have a saying about: Good, Fast; Cheap - pick any two. :-)! I'm really curious about the well project and will look forward to reading about that in the future too. So many projects! I reckon your raised garden beds will work well in drier times too, although they may require a little bit more water. I have many raised vegetable beds here and the climate can be very variable so they are a good form of insurance against unpredictable weather. You never know. The soil there is looking great too!<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />ChrisFernglade Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06950962122594709186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-3339379114294734102017-01-19T11:45:48.641+01:002017-01-19T11:45:48.641+01:00Hi Pam! It is green, despite today being the cold...Hi Pam! It is green, despite today being the coldest of the year (-5C or 25ishF) And the diabolical electrical companies have set the highest rates of the year. Coincidence? I think not. What a racket.<br /><br />I´m starting with protein fibres. I´ve purchased some silk scarves and I´d like to have a go at some wool. My understanding is that cotton/linen are a different, trickier thing. More in further posts.<br /><br />Keep warm in Virginia!Cocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-75681754813575927632017-01-18T15:13:31.381+01:002017-01-18T15:13:31.381+01:00Hi, Coco!
Your place is so green. I am trying not...Hi, Coco!<br /><br />Your place is so green. I am trying not to be envious, though - truly - spring is just around the corner here. I was quite shocked that Spain taxes solar panels. When my son lived near Orgiva we considered a move to Spain, but a move out of the states would be difficult (elderly relatives, etc.; we had a lot of dogs then, too - hi Breo!). That's an impressive barn structure. It can become something so neat.<br /><br />I used to enjoy so much experimenting with natural dyes. I was using them on unbleached cotton fabric. Keep in mind that most dyes need a mordant to fix them to the fabric. I never tried printing with them. That sounds like a lot of fun.<br /><br />PamPam in Virginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895842137691734477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-32960600465543973192017-01-17T10:20:40.609+01:002017-01-17T10:20:40.609+01:00Hi GZ! Best of luck on your travels to NZ. I´m s...Hi GZ! Best of luck on your travels to NZ. I´m so envious and you´ll be getting summer weather, we´re expecting a freeze here. Many told us to forget the house and rebuild the barn instead. We´ll see how realistic it is after we get budgets.<br /><br />Hi Vera! I´d think playing in a band certainly counts as integrating. You´ll not see me performing anything publicly, though I´ve been thinking about learning to play the mountain dulcimer for when the SHTF and the lights go out. They´re hard to find on this side of the pond.Cocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-35760887745812793162017-01-16T19:22:59.887+01:002017-01-16T19:22:59.887+01:00Splendid plans for this year, especially the one t...Splendid plans for this year, especially the one to do with integrating with the local community, which is something we don't do but hope to soon!Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235143664894609891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-65058239394616023802017-01-16T12:00:27.260+01:002017-01-16T12:00:27.260+01:00realistic plans..and the barn looks big enough for...realistic plans..and the barn looks big enough for all the ideas!gzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.com