Wet Winter Projects

What a wet old winter it’s been. It never ceases to amaze me that our place up north gets so wet and sludgy in the winter yet so dry in the summer. I’ve been making the most of the soft ground, though, by planting some early potatoes. It really is very easy to grow potatoes especially when lots of storms wash heaps of kelp up on the beach. All you do is dig a trench, lay the seaweed in the bottom, nestle the potatoes around it then cover it all up with soil again. In a few months I will sneak a few small ones and have the most divine hot potato salad for lunch.
 
We’ve also been trimming the blackberry and raspberry canes in the berry house and popping in some new strawberry plants so that our grandchildren have plenty of yummy berries to eat when they visit at Christmas.
And I’ve harvested six avocados off my tree which had never produced any before. I had been waiting for them to ripen on the tree but then did a bit of research and found out that you actually have to pick them, then they will ripen!