ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It's storm Ingrid this weekend, more wind, more rain; hopefully not more damage. It's tipping down just now so I'm indoors and staying there. I've not seen much of the garden this week, again, and what little I have seen has merely underlined how little has changed since last week.Six on Saturday calls for pictures…
It's beginning to feel like winter has been going on for a long time and needs to loosen its grip. On the other hand, I don't want time itself to go any quicker, it's way too fast as it is. I've scraped together another six items, for one of which (number two), the modern world…
Storm Goretti was probably the big news of this week as far as the garden is concerned. The Met Office red warning area fell just a few miles short of us here and we didn't suffer any significant damage, though we were on edge for several hours. Aside from that, the cold spell seems to…
A new year and the days are getting longer and we've had a dry week. Have I been out gardening? Well no, I think I'm turning into a fair weather gardener and it's been too cold for pottering. Were I still a digger, it would have been perfect weather for turning over the soil on…
I've very little to report at this stage of the year. Nothing much has changed since my post a month ago and in a sense that is a good thing. in this first picture you can see that my plot is largely occupied by growing plants of one sort or another. Most are cover crops,…
Last post of the year. Unsurprisingly the garden this week has not been the main focus of my attention and when I went round this morning to see what I could find, it wasn't much. We still haven't had significant frost so a lot of things that should be dead are not, which is far…
Following a talk to our garden club by a lady from Prickles and Paws, a hedgehog rescue centre in Cornwall, we signed up as a release site for rehabilitated hedgehogs. Our first arrival was in February 2024 and he didn't seem to hang around for long before disappearing.Earlier this year, on 19 August, we took…
One word sums up this week, wet. Today, meaning Friday, it didn't rain but I spent most of the day helping resheet a polytunnel for some friends who live nearby. Consequently I have spent almost no time in the garden all week. I did a quick sortie yesterday to see what I can find and…
Well, that was no ordinary week. Storm Bram gave us a good dousing on Monday, accompanied by strong winds, so there is less than ever to feature this week. Please join in if you can, we need all the help we can get for our Six on Saturday meme. All you need is half a…
Into the final month of 2025 and as one season winds down, I am beginning to see the very first stirrings of the next one. A few of next spring's bulbs are emerging, one or two spring flowering Camellias have the odd bloom on them, new shoots are coming up on at least one Crocosmia.…
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