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The kite at work
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Ever since I ordered the new garden furniture, it's been raining just about every day. It's been cold, dark and windy, too. The fluctuations in temperature have been brutal on the fruit trees and the grapes. I'm afraid it will be a bad year for grape growing in Ireland. So not only a pandemic, but a crop failure to boot.
The apples have been falling off the trees at golf ball size. The birds ate the cherries, and there are very few pears compared with prior years. We did have a good crop of raspberries and black currents but a mediocre crop of strawberries and red currants. At least Alex's kites have been doing their job protecting the fruit from the crows. The days when we have to take it down because of high winds, the crows got a feast.
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The vineyard
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| Rondo grapes |
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Solaris grapes
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Gardening in the orchard
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Ominous clouds and a hole in the sky
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House freshly painted with new windvane on the chimney
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The new dining table
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Fallen apples made a nice jelly
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View from the top of the farm
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My vista. Vineyard on the far right.
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