Leaf fall

Well, yesterday I used the grasscutter to chop up and collect the prodigious walnut leaf fall. I’ll chuck the leafmold onto the veg beds - the potatoes probably - in springtime. This is what it looked like this morning as I took wood stove ash to add to the leaf piles.

Walnut leaves have a wonderful smell- like a green nutmeg, spicy, exotic with a sniff of something dangerous. They contain something that suppresses the growth of things beneath them, apparently, but I don’t think it has been deleterious to the veg.

Now waiting for heavy rain tonight after a warm clammy overcast day with the cloud ceiling at700 metres. Snow on the way for the alps and high Apennines say the weather guys.

Autumn veg in extras. I’m gradually corralling the squash into the house. The radicchio is delicious with olive oil and balsamic thick as tar and that’s a bunch of coriander next to it.

A couple of backblips coming up.