Kitchen Garden Update
It was pointed out to me that I didn’t need to plant my lambs lettuce in rows but instead the seeds could be scattered liberally over a patch of ground. Armed with this new information I went and liberally scattered some more seed in amongst my existing neat rows. I’ve just read my original post on my kitchen garden and now realise however that I’ve scattered the lambs lettuce in amongst the cut and come again lettuce rows, not the lambs lettuce rows. Oops, I hope that doesn’t cause any problems later on.
I have now removed the spent tomato plants from their bed and weeded the site thoroughly too. The tomato plants did us proud this summer and gave us a huge crop. I’ll definitely be planting more plants however next summer because I want to be able to make tomato sauce and freeze it. I left the canes where they are so my peas and broad beans can now climb up them. I planted my pea seeds down one side and my broad bean seeds down the other. I then planted my Lettuce – Meraviglia D’Inverno Sel S. Martino seedlings all around the outside of the bed. There seemed to be a lot of seedlings left over however so I have also commandeered another bed to grow them in.
The wonderful thing about growing vegetables at this time of year is there is no watering to be done. Although I could attach a photo of a flower bed with nothing to see except canes in it but that is just to tedious for words. You’ll just have to use your imagination for now.
My name is CB, a twenty nine year old attempting to renovate a crumbling Portuguese farmhouse into a beautiful home and thriving smallholding. There is considerable work needed both indoors and out to create the gorgeous and productive home I have in mind but I do love a good challenge. 
