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Loving that it’s now, definitively spring. Feels & looks like it. & the roadside daffs are everywhere. Having had a week of work and garden I realised I literally hadn’t left the house for 5 days yesterday so walked up the beach to the local pub with the wife. Clear views across to #Normandy past #Gorey and the castle. Hilarious local #Jersey politics: sign put up by a local land owner to annoy his notoriously mean neighbour who shouts at ‘trespassers’ trying to get down his path to the beach.
A pub bar top with a range of beer taps
A landscape of Grouville beach with a calm ebbed tide, Gorey village in the near distance and the French coast 15 miles beyond, the slightest line in the far horizon
A timber built wall with two signs on, to the right asking that users with dogs clear up and to the left “Private Lane. Public use at their own risk. Unlike other grumpy landowners we understand your need to access your beach. Stay safe. Enjoy your day’.
A zoomed photo across Grouville bay to Gorey and Mont Orgeuil Castle, with the Normandy coast just visible in the far distance
#normandy #jersey #gorey
Louane CooIey
Delightful. What a fabulous place you live in.

I’m really understanding just what the warm water and air currents circulating the planet do for you. You’re 9 deg lat N of us and we are easily a month behind in season.

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JimmyB (he/him)
when that Greenland ice melt really gets going - and I’ve heard estimates as soon as next 5 years, as long as end of this century - then we get Canadian weather. We might wish we’d actually listened to Greta at that point!

Been out collecting seaweed this morning: what a joy! The early morning swimmer came to chat, plus the dog walkers. So sociable if you get up early. Island life is good sometimes
An early morning pebble beach with a flat ebbing sea and red and light blue garden trugs filled with seaweed
Small whip fruit trees planted along a metal pergola with a big pile of seaweed mulch around the base of each one. A big pile of seaweed is at the end wrapped in a blue tarpaulin with an old Volvo behind. A clump of 2nd year Echiums grow through the frame on the right.
A metal pergola frame with whip 1 year maiden fruit trees planted along each side, each with a pile of dark seaweed around its base. A willow fence is to the left plus two yellow and green kayaks.
Louane CooIey
Oh your arbor is looking great! It will be spectacular in a few years.

What do you do with the seaweed? Is it edible? For mulch? Fertilizer?

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JimmyB (he/him)
yes - I really hope so. Planting trees and doing big garden projects - always an act of both faith and hope!

The seaweed is the best fertiliser I know of - and yes, it’s a great mulch. Tomatoes and potatoes absolutely love it. But the fruit trees too. So I use it super abundantly.
#gardening
#Gardening
clew
It should have all the soluble nutrients that wash out of land ecosystems, right?

How do you keep from salting your garden with it, though?

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JimmyB (he/him)
The salt always used to worry me but a) I try to take it only after it’s been on the beach for a week or more b) it’s rained a bit and then c) I don’t remulch the same area the next year. I try to do every 3rd year.

The local potato farmers used to lay ‘vrac’ on their fields every single year - big tradition in #Jersey - so I think it’s probably ok. But I have asked myself the question…

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