We went local this week having been given four calabashes. These are round, hard gourd like fruit that are very tough skinned filled with foul smelling wet dough. Once they are sawn in half and scraped out, they are dried, sanded on the inside and then used as food bowls. Ours are at the drying stage. Some people paint the outside and then varnish them. This activity occupied a wet day in St Lucia. They will make great salad bowls.
On the horticultural side we have started the task of planting the garden. This wasn’t a planned activity, it was just because we have been given a small avocado sapling, and a calabash branch that is sprouting and we paid for some palms that were going cheap. The guy next door then gave us some small coconut palms to plant, so we were forced to find places for everything. In the meantime we had watermelon the other day and afterwards I popped some seeds into a yoghurt pot and they are now rushing up and will need to go into the ground.