What a Relief…on Thursday we planted our peanut seeds and as soon as they were planted, the grey clouds starting gathering.  It didn’t rain until the evening but it was lovely to get the drop in temperature.  Since then, the weather has been cool and we have really enjoyed the weather change.

Look!  There is a Gnome planting peanut:

We have been absolutely exhausted from the farm work coupled with the relentless heat but we are still going.  That is because June is the last month to get our projects finished before it pours down in July and you can’t get out for all the sloshing and shwishing (onomatopoeia and neologism combined…ooohhhh da Munchkin is a fervent writer).  I have our indoor activities already lined up for July…so Gnome, there is no need to get bored!!

Anyway, since it has been cool, I have been doing my nursery transplanting.  I have twenty peach palms and a whole load of citrus which will be ready for the September planting.  Plus I have started a whole lot of new stuff, courtesy of Mother of Gnome; this includes different types of aubergines, tomatillos and tomatoes.  We have also started tobacco, giant granadilla and loofah.

Other things on the farm…our dandelions have come up very nicely.  Thank-you so much Erin!!  We have tasted the leaf already and they have a lovely bitter taste; we are growing these for seed and then we will plant a huge bed with them for green leaves and roots.

It is jackfruit time again and we just harvested a mega big baby; look at the size of this one.  We put a broom (I was going to use my foot but Gnome exclaimed: no one can gauge the size of the fruit from your foot…who knows if you have little or big feet??!) next to these so that you can figure out the size; the biggest one is about 50lbs in weight (well, Gnome said it weighed like a sack of corn which is about 50lbs in weight).  😉

Have a great weekend everyone!!

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