Sure enough there are green seedlings springing up everywhere following all the rain. The small true leaves look familiar but I have not yet identified them. I met someone at the weekend who said that around their finca in La Oliva there will be great swathes of white Marguerite daisies. I am hoping for the same. At the weekend we took a walk up onto the hill behind the finca. This was the view.
The aloe vera has also turned from brown to green (below left). I haven't yet worked out what to do with the 800 or so plants that we have. Probably advertise them for sale on 'Segundamano' (which is a bit like Gumtree or Preloved in the UK) for someone starting out in growing aloe vera. Growing and processing aloe vera, and keeping goats for cheese making are important agricultural enterprises here.
This is our front lawn here on the right.
This is our front lawn here on the right.
Looking back to last week's post my plan was to pull down a section of the wall to create a new access to the fields, and to move the greenhouse. Unfortunately the greenhouse hasn't moved but the wall is down! After much pounding with sledgehammers to no avail it finally succumbed to being pulled over by attaching a rope to a hook on the front of my truck.
We have put in a water pipe with taps all around the garden area which is visible here.
We have put in a water pipe with taps all around the garden area which is visible here.
Berna's son Jorge has joined us, and is doing a cracking job of finishing off the gas boiler cabinet, the water pump housing, and making the new lighting and power cable runs. I had understood from Berna that he has been working at Mercadona supermarket on Lanzarote. Poor guy, a skilled builder stacking shelves in the supermarket. But no, another error of communication. He is in fact building a Mercadona supermarket on Lanzarote. Here he is getting to know Wendy.
Another newbie is David. He is the 'peon' who arrived last Friday and who has been making a great job of painting the outside walls. I think 'peon' is a bit unkind as the dictionary describes a 'peon' as a menial labourer or a person of negligible social status. Whatever, he has worked like a Trojan getting through 75 litres of paint. He has made a huge difference over the past week to how the finca looks.
