Quinta das Abelhas

Summer is here. Cassey and the kittens are taking a break in the shade of an olive tree:

These heirloom climbing beans are doing very well, but no beans to eat yet:

The bed is very simply some bricks, in a circle, filled with horse manure. Obviously the bean plants love the manure.

The Goji berry plant, which was just a stick in a pot, has been growing fast too. We are watering roughly every two days now, and, even with the manure, the beds dry out. Luckily our well has an underground stream flowing into it, so we have plenty of water (but we still need to be careful with it). There are no berries on the plant, also known as wolfberry, but it seems that flowers should start forming soon, and we’ll get berries through the autumn. Some info here.

I think we need to build some kind of frame around it to keep the berries off of the floor.

We have our first augergine (eggplant) flower of the year. I love aubergines chopped small, cooked with beans, olive oil and soya sauce. We’ll be eating them in a few weeks if this heat keeps up.

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