Tines

I’ve reduced the width of the cultivator’s tine row for the summer now that most of the planting is done.

I replanted the cannelini beans as the first lot got too much water and struggled to break through the crust-capped soil.

Put in three extra double rows of borlottis.

Bought frigitelle and bottling green pepper plants, forty five leeks, caper and ornamental corn seed.

There is always this rush to plant as much as possible as spring’s warmth hovers before the blasting heat of summer.

I’ve still to sort out my tangled web of irrigation drip pipes and all depends on the spring system in the big field continuing to flow through the summer.

It is sad to think there will be so little fruit this summer due to the late frosts but the olives are about to bloom and the vines look resplendent in their first growth greens.