Barren soil

The soil in Jamestown is dead.  Even weeds struggle to grow.

BUT a bug has bitten Graeme, and he has decided to try and start a vegetable garden at the back of the manse.  He is going about it in the very thorough way that he usually tackles new projects.  He started with preparing the soil, and has already done a great job of moving the heavy rocks from the rockfall, and sifting out the heavier stones in one of the beds.

Every Thursday, on his way to the Sandy Bay Bible study, he stops at the Baptist property at Knollcombes and collects 2 buckets of top soil, that even has earth worms in it.  This is placed in a zinc bath and watered and fertilized.  We have a friend that keeps chickens and others that have goats and sheep and the odd cow.  We hope to get manure from them, and to bring new life to the desert like sand.

After that, Graeme hopes to be able to actually grow veggies for the kitchen.

It will take a lot of effort, and water and soil and plant feeding, and insect killing etc, but who knows - we might end up having the best kitchen garden in Main Street.

Our one cat, Clawd, loves to supervise while Graeme works in the garden.

Hannah enjoys playing in the dirt