Garden Club

Garden Club started last year September and is still running. It is only held once a month and we gather at one of the members gardens.

 The meetings are like the gathering of bees, everyone gets chatting and are so pleased to see one another that it can be rather difficult bringing everyones attention back to the garden.
 It  has been wonderful to go home with new plants that the hosts have been happy for us to take home. Topics of raised beds, orchards, ornamental gardens, self sufficient gardens, have been discussed in the past.  Our latest visit we saw how Manuel and Elena have worked hard to clear a plot of land  and set up a garden. They have a lot of volcanic rock and had to import soil in order to grow vegetables but have made use of the volcanic rock to plant grapes and fruit trees, which have done extremely well.

The stone walls that you see, were also built by Manuel. The afternoon ended in his stone adega with a glass of wine and some lovely treats made by Elena. Some useful information I walked away with - when you use fresh laurel (bay leaf) in your cooking, the spine of the leaf should be removed first. The next garden meet will be at our house.