Quinta das Abelhas

I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks “what are these plants?”, looking through my records, scratching my head. There were a few possibilities. It just says ‘big pot at back’, and there were several big pots at the back! Today I made a list of the few possibilities, and did some searches for pictures on the net, eventually coming up with Tea plants. That’s right, Camelia Sinensis, the plant that is grown to make tea. Apparently our conditions are almost perfect for it, acid soil, hot summer and not too cold in the winter, but they would prefer to be higher up. Fantastic, in three years we’ll be able to make our own pots of tea!

I also harvested our oats today. I am not sure how to go about getting the oats off the stalks. Worse scenario is that I will have to pick every one off, but for now I am allowing them to dry out properly.

So, there we have it. Oats for my muesli, and tea, a proper breakfast of champions, and here’s the perfect place to eat it, where i can start my mornings thinking about the jobs needing to be done in my garden:

Unfortunately the coffee beans haven’t germinated, perhaps they will, and I will be able to have homegrown coffee with my muesli.

Stumble it!

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