Gnome has had his seven days off to recover from his neck injury and we went back to working on the farm today. He is a lot better and he was hauling heavy stuff, digging holes in the earth and moving wheel-barrows around without any problems. This is what he said to me this morning:

“…hang on a minute…why did you end up taking a week off too??”

I sort of shifted uncomfortably from side to side and stared down at my feet and replied:

“…well…I was looking after you…and it was Chinese New Year…and I wanted a week off too!”

(I thought to myself… that was plenty of reasons to take seven days off !!)

He shook his head and laughed at me.

Anyway, it started off as a grey and rainy type of day so we decided to plant our last lot of plants outside. The malibar chestnut and jackfruit have been planted in the area behind the pond.

Tomorrow we will be planting a row of peach palms in the coconut area:

These palms produce fruit that the geese love. This is another tree that they camp around hoping for fruits to fall from the sky.

We have other plants that are not quite big enough to plant outside so they will have to be cared for over the dry season. Luckily, I had the foresight to remember not to fill up the nursery over dry season this year so we only have akee, pomegranate, giant molly apple and rambutan plants. This is the Sardinian pomegranate; we have 10 ready for planting in July; Gnome’s Mother will be pleased to see these!

We have been harvesting taro which means we are eating this everyday right now; we probably have a whole sack full. This year we managed to surreptitiously plant them in places where the geese did not notice…in-between tyres and underneath trees. Beware…they have a keen eye for every edible plant!

Cleaned up and peeled, they look like this:

We had a lovely day working together and will continue to do so as it keep us fit and out of trouble!! 😉

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