Sweetpeas running wild.

Doesn't time fly!   4 days since I looked at this and thought about what we've been doing - and most of those days were blustery.   Saturday I went into Cádiar to get vegetables from the market and had a coffee with friends who are over for a holiday,  Sunday was our acequia watering day,  which although the water channels are all in place and kept clean,  and some fruit and vegetable beds have irrigation pipes in,  still the flow needs checking so we don't overflow and flood places,  and we have to make sure the pipes have not blocked with leaves or grit  and that the - strawberries mainly - are getting well watered.

No danger of anything drying out today as last night it drizzled just after we went for our last walk,  and this morning we woke to cloud and more drizzle.  Before the clouds came down over Mecina,  I could swear there was snow way up high above the town in the tree line.  White in the firebreaks,  not dark earthy looking.

Yesterday we started trying to reclaim some of the overgrown paths and flower beds from the wild sweetpeas.  They are beautiful,  dark pink,  but grow at an enormous rate.   If they have something to climb up they get as tall as me,  if not they just ramble every where and it has become quite difficult to get to the shed,  the side vegetable garden, the back gate etc...

The other long  term problem is all the seeds that they produce.  If we don't get the plants out now before the pods dry and fling seeds everywhere, then next year will be even worse.  We leave some plants alone and keep a close eye on the pods to collect the seeds and put them where we want - not where they want to go.   We have 3 big piles of  pulled out plants waiting for dumping but not today in the drizzle!   We take the old unwanted plants down to our lower terraces and let them die off on the bankings so that the seeds can grow there - the more vegetation and roots on a bank the better especially if we get  very wet winters.  It all helps prevent land slips.