Doing

Well, not a lot really lol!

I have tidied the herb garden some more, shook a few of the seeded heads around the place to see if I can get as much self seeding as possible (I'd just like bushy close together plants to overtake the weeds and make it all look lush and full).

Inspected my old vegetable garden beds and discovered quite a few self seeded veges down there - kale, lettuce, potatoes (a lot are dying off again though with the cold weather we've been having) and a mass of carrots (they came up where I put seeds back in Spring - no idea why they are only up now though).

Made up my soap last weekend and just waiting for it to dry for another few weeks. Was an interesting process, but took ages for the lye and the oils to soponify. Can't wait to use it.

Collected the rest of the scarlett runner beans from the vines that I had decided not to do anything with and opened them up and scattered over a bare/weedy area of soil at the back of my section. I'm hoping some with germinate and therefore add nitrogen to the soil. I went to a Transition Towns meeting/movie night on Tuesday and have a semi-plan for growing a food forest down in the lower area where I can put fruiting trees, herbs and whatever else insires me where it becomes self sufficient and requiring little input from me (and using the chopped off tops from support plants as mulch). So the first plan is to rebuilt up the soil with legumes (probably need to get some lupin seeds) and see how that goes.

After reading one of my herbal books, I collected some rose geranium from the garden, chopped it up, put it in a jar and covered with olive oil and will leave to soak for a few weeks before straining. It will be a nice body/bath oil once finished.

Mostly...due to the freezing cold weather that's hit over the past week or so, we've changed pace and been hibernating inside with the fire roaring and keeping warm.