Of potatoes and lemons and the smell of coffee

The coffee sack potato experiment seems to be going rather well.  They've been in their sacks for a good month now.  The theory is that once the plants show leafy growth, you cover that with soil, and in doing so prompt the plant to grow another layer of tubers.

Here's the Creative Reinventor holding the sacks' sides so the soil doesn't fall out.  Two of the three sacks have reshot leaves, so it's time to fill them again.  We also decided to try the same with leeks.  No such progress yet.

You've got to admire the tenacity of plants.  This lemon tree had a nasty citrus gall wasp infestation.  It needed hard pruning twice to get rid of all the galls.  And it's done this.  Quite out of season, but it's in a sunny spot, and Perth doesn't really get cold.

Meanwhile the Practical Reinventor struggles with the black dog.  The Corona-crisis has rendered her unemployed and this is not a good state of affairs.  Thankfully the weather is mostly nice enough to cycle every day, and exercise is a saviour.

The Creative Reinventor is doing rather better.  With the pandemic forced the early closure of his first cafe, it's also brought a new landlord who's most supportive of setting up a quirky cafe.  And the rent is rather more reasonable than the original site.  There has been much fitting and sawing and painting and discussing and we're looking at opening in July. Exciting!