My New Organic Garden on the Island
Springtime is finally back in my country, still somehow shy and not as warm as springtime usually is on beautiful Adriatic coast.
For many weeks birds happily sing and make love, air is again full of fragrances of spring flowers, everything is in charming blossom...
So what do in springtime ? The best is to fall in love, of course, but love has many faces so this springtime my love has been dedicated mainly to eco-gardening - growing own flowers and vegetables can be so romantic (especially if your soulmate is digging together with you)..In my Hub My life on farm, 2,5 months ago I mentioned that my boyfriend and me just started to create organic garden - on one smaller island in Adriatic Sea (Iz)- where he inherited the land, so here are few pictures of our challenge and accomplishments.
Land has not been cultivated for 30-35 years , so we did not come there to bed of roses... I must admit though - it was a bit like fairy-tale - property looked like part of "Sleeping beauty" castle after 100 years... but there was no prince of charming to use the sword and cut them all for me - I needed to be prince as well and with precious help of machetes and all other possible sharp tools, we cultivated enough of land to grow our first small garden... ( cleared from the bushes, wild blackberries, ivy and wild fruit treas which were everywhere around).
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On the first photos bellow, you will see "paradise" of 35 years old blackberries (in February still not green) and other happy wild plants which covered all property, so it was not possible to even pass through. (view is on small garden house, which was used as storage).
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When we first time came there....
"Sleeping beauty" fairy tale was alive...as nightmare
After 2 months of very active weekends situation changed. Machetes have done their jobs properly and helped us winn the first battle against bushes of wild blackberries.
Please - do not say that machetes are for men only - I was always the first one who was entering in the tunell of unpleasently sharp bushes - my boyfriend was all the time following me... (princes are not as they used to be, LOL).
Afterwords we did a lot of digging and using various secret tools which farmers for many centuries use - for cultivating the land (or as weapons in rebellions) - further actions were done with rakes, hoes, pitch-forks etc. It is not easy to clear the land which was for decades not in use. Of course, tractor cannot be used on this island - soil is full of rocks underneath, so all work was done by our 4 hands.
On the following photos you can see what happened after 7-8 weekends of work: I hope you will like the change - Sleeping Beauty finally started to woke up, and - voila:
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The same view on small garden house as above....
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These photos were taken 3 weeks ago, peas are now ready for harvesting...as well as spring onions. Garden is small thes year, but this is just beginning....there is a lot of work to do there...for many years.
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Next step is to start to take care about 40-50 olive trees which my boyfriend has on some other parts of land on the island (on Croatian islands, everyone has smaller parts of land placed here and there, it is such tradition), and start to produce our own (eco) olive oil from autumn. Original olive oil has uncoparable taste to anything what you ever bought in supermarked. It is pure poetry ! Of course we are planning to plant much more olive trees....as soon as we cultivate enough of land for that purpose....so it can become small bussiness over the years.
Of course, we need to renew house so it can become suitable for living. After so many years of non-use, inside is still horror - but step by step, all work will be done (mainly by ourselves).
Please, wish me a lot of luck and plenty of energy - I really need it!
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Me, happy gardener
Burning of old karma (blackberries and other wild bushes)
Me as Free Mason
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