28/10/2026
So it's officially winter here now that the clocks have changed. It's absolutely glorious though. Cool enough to work in the garden any time of the day and still warm enough to sit outside for dinner with the setting sun.
We've been cracking on with some heavy digging and strimming jobs; fixing a terrace that was damaged by wild boar, digging up some huge, deep broom and moving agaves to make space for a vegetable garden and for planting lots of fruit trees as soon as possible so they have all Winter and Spring to settle in before the intense heat.
Visiting the garden centres was exciting and we're going to start with Pistachio, Lemon, Lime, Mandarin, Avocado and Mango. The last 2 may be touch and go at our altitude of 550m but we'll try them in a sheltered area.
We're also going to get a chipper so we can turn waste into compost to improve the soil though we're quite lucky to have a pretty good soil here.
I've also sowed some lambs lettuce, rocket, kale, coriander and parsley as an experiment. I don't really know the timings for growing here yet but it will be fun learning what works.
