Ever evolving circle

Brittany is steeped in Celtic myths, mysteries and monuments.  Mr O also has his roots in another well known green Celtic country and has learned a thing or two from ancient  knowledge over the years.
Gaudin Gardens itself is in close proximity to the sites of some ancient hill forts, and has a ley line along one of its boundaries, that runs between these ancient hill forts and beyond.
So using ancient Irish technology of grazing sheep on the land and observing their preferred places before erecting a dwelling  plus a little help from his trusty pendulum, Mr O selected a site to create a simple quartz and granite stone circle set to the cardinal points.

October 2015

The stone circle has not only enhanced the vibrational energies and harmonised certain magnetic abnormalities with the land and inside the farmhouse, it is also a great place to sit and chill in the shade of the willows

July 2017

The circle is an ever evolving project which grows as we find suitable materials to recuperate like the stone table and the unfinished benches.  This year we added the small fire pit for those chilly evenings or a small "grillade" for two

 

Until next time, Blessings to all



Vanessa

I love Wallflowers in the spring, the scent reminds me of my childhood garden, so at the end of June I decided to collect and dry some wallflower seeds from a couple of plants I have in the garden

The seeds were dry enough to take out of their pods by the middle of July.  Its quite a time consuming job but rewarding watching all the little brown seeds fall into the paper bag

I sowed rather a lot of the seeds into a recycled plastic container, and two weeks later they had all germinated



Using my homemade compost

I spent sometime yesterday pricking the seedlings out into individual pots

 All being well next spring we should have a colourful scented display of wallflowers at Gaudin Gardens

Its been windy and raining here today in Brittany more like October than the end of July so I'll leave you with a couple of photos taken earlier this week when the sun was shining.

Until next time, Blessing to all

Vanessa

The Old Dew Pond

On one of the wild edges of the land we have an old dew pond, which was full of all sorts of unimaginable rubbish which Mr O and myself have cleared out and recreated an attractive wild pond

 Unfortunately like all dew ponds, in prolonged dry spells the water level drops.

So we add water from our well to keep the pond life happy



Freddy frog is a happy Frog

Another wild edge just beyond the pond for the bee's and butterflies

Until next time, Blessings to all
Vanessa 

Busy week

Myself and Mr O have been busy in the garden this last week

We've taken out the old pea plants and collected the pea's we left to go to seed.  We did the same thing with the broad beans.  We've also harvested all our garlic and the rest of the new potatoes,

as well as our daily harvest of green beans, carrots, turnips, courgettes and cucumbers for our daily meals.  The rest we freeze or store for the winter

This has freed up some of the beds which we have now covered with brown paper and hay

 





Our local bakery saves their brown paper flour sacks for us and we have recuperated several big bails of hay, which were no longer any use for animal feed.



Dia,Brilla and Inca being well behaved as Mr O is just out of view giving instructions





Using the same technique we extended one of the beds so I can plant more shrubs and flowers

I never would have imagined that a no dig, no chemical permaculture garden could be so productive. 

Mother nature knows best

Until next time, Blessings to all
Vanessa

The Universe has it covered

 

This is the second year of permaculture here at Gaudin Gardens and the magic of the universal energies and nature are already beginning to show.

If someone had told me in 2010 when we brought this derelict farmhouse with an acre of land that I would be gardening growing flowers and veg, I would have thought them mad, gardening was for other people.

Recycled old digger tracks used for borders of raised beds

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I had several past attempts over the last 27 years of living in Brittany but didn't get very good results so I gave up.



Then I discovered the no dig gardening method through some friends, so I did a bit of research and decided this sounds like my kind of gardening, letting nature do the work.

 

Bergamot



It all started to make sense to me, why destroy the ecosystem by digging and using nasty chemicals when the universe has it covered



Until next time, Blessings to all

Vanessa