Gool Peran Lowen !

                                                Dydh da ....Gool Peran Lowen !
                  Which is Cornish for Hello or Good day ......Happy St Piran's Feast day !
The flags are proudly flying through Mullion village and up on the tower of St Mellanus Church Mullion . Have a lovely day all !

Walking the Dog

 After a chaotic morning of doing "Saturday morning things" , we decided to take what turned out to be an exhilarating walk up to and along the cliffs .
 Good idea to wear wellies here , sometimes cattle and horse droppings  , usually muddy , splishy splashy squelchy , but always a fun and breathtaking walk , when you finally arrive at the top of the cliffs to see the wild waves crashing down below and the wind in your hair to blow all your cares away.

  An arm full of kindling to get the wood burning stove going when we get home .

                                                      One tired little dog .

"Saturday morning things" list.....the plumber calling to fix and service the broken central heating and hot water boiler .
  Town to go to the library collect reserved books and get general shopping .
 Home for bite to eat and check on tomato seedlings , greenhouse , sow some Silver Fox Digitalis seeds . Husband cleans windows !!!
Drive to post office to post letters .
Drive around the village admiring all Cornish flags flying for tomorrows St Piran's Day .
Then off for dog walk .
 Husband cooking dinner , I wash up , put my feet up and do some embroidery.....early night .

March already and World Book Day !

Yesterday was World Book Day- children dressing up as favourite characters from books and receiving  book vouchers ,to encourage them to love reading  :) Everyone talking about their favourite books ......well here's the pile of books I,ve brought home with me from the library this week . As usual quite a mix..... Danish embroidery , botanical water colour painting  , archaeology , Japanese patchwork and applique  , The Monastery Vegetarian Cookbook   Simply Heavenly ! by Abbot George Burke and a beautiful old book , Silence in Heaven by Thomas Merton for some gentle spiritual meditation and reflection for Lent .

 

This book Creating a Forest Garden by Martin Crawford is top of my list at the moment . It surprised me , since it is really is  how I have always gardened ..only he does it better !

 I pricked out the tiny Cherokee  Purple Tomato seedlings and took them out of my warm kitchen and into my husbands shed with the big sloping window so lots of light .

 My leek seeds are germinating  and I was surprised to see how the  tiny Babbington Leek bulbils have sprung up . I took the bulbils from a clump that I have in my garden . They have moved house with us several times. Originally coming from down Angrouse Lane here in Mullion , where they grew on my ancient Cornish hedge alongside our 400 year old thatch cottage . They taste leeky /garlicky .
  I also grow Amish and Egyptian walking onions , sometimes I have a few bulbils to share .

                                           Cornish Wild Leeks / Babbington Leeks .

                                                         Poldhu Cove .

 I have been trying to find Daubentons Kale ...a perenniel kale and was very kindly given some by a fellow gardener on Allotments4all .I am so grateful and really would like to return the favour . Ah..I didn't put a picture on of that ..I,ll post a picture of that one next time .
 It is very important to keep these simple ,old and once dependable varieties of perennial vegetables going in our home vegetable gardens .
  I bought a variegated form of it from Alison Tindale at The Backyard Larder .

It arrived so beautifully packed with shredded seed catalogues ..yes I found myself reading them ... Then quickly got to potting it up.  Actually both the cuttings I received , I will bring on  for a little while in pots , before planting out .  They revived very quickly from parcel to pot .
   The new pumpkin/squash bed ......
                                          ..........I,m going to grow something really special this year  ,  from seeds a blogging friend  has kindly sent me .

The new Pumpkin bed is really coming along now, so much good earth for so little effort .
 We have had quite a bit of rain and the earth is soft . It is a "no dig" bed and a "not too much walking on" bed either, but I gently and very easily turned it over yesterday afternoon and am amazed at the number of earth worms amongst it all . It is the worms that are doing all the hard work .

 

               Lastly my favourite Camellia "Water lily " with its pretty pointed petals .