Never promsed you a Rose garden

CentroAnidra make a rose syrrup and rose jams which they sell although probably not for a profit. They want their production to grow so this week we are onto it.
The rough, grass field should have been ploughed last year and sowed with clover or something similar. Then we could have simply ploughed it again this year, leaving a nice nitrogen rich earth for the roses.
Instead we ploughed it a few days ago, leaving a mess of buried roots and sods to clean up as we go.
The rows were staked out and drip irrigation line laid along them. Insufficient fittings had been bought as nobody had seen fit to calculate the amount necessary before buying them, so the job was half done.
In the meantime, the bushes were dug from the nursery, separated into individual plants, and planted along the rows.
Some of the volunteers have been gathering and pressing olives.They are small and hard and not very tasty, but the oil is very tasty. Perhaps the the cause can be found in their age: they had been Bonsai trees in pots for a score of years before being planted a couple of years.Read more