ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The busier a week is, the quicker Saturday comes around. This Saturday came round as quickly as any I can recall. Not that I'm about to share much with you, most of it being unrelated to gardening.Early in the week I spotted a small hedgehog out in the garden in mid afternoon, never a good…
I think I may have intended doing a post about my allotment at the beginning of September but it came and went without me noticing. It's been that sort of year.Last Sunday and Monday were our last two garden openings for the year. In the 3½ hours we were open on Sunday the rain gauge…
Our garden opening season comes to an end on Monday and to be honest, I'm glad it's over for the year. It has been a slog keeping it from getting no worse than it already is and it's disheartening to put in a lot of extra work and still have it looking as battered as…
We had about half an inch of rain over the week, cooler too, so it didn't immediately evaporate. The weather forecasting machine seems to have moved on to the increased threat of storms and exceptional rain in the autumn due to El Nino. Whatever. We have the garden open on the last two days of…
The drought continues and the garden looks steadily more miserable. I don't want to think about it or even go and look at it. I've carried on watering some things; we still have another opening to get through so there ought to be something for visitors to look at, but it's pretty hard to get…
A year ago I started a set of posts about my allotment, the first on the 1st of August, the last on the 1st of January 2026. That's as far as I got. Nothing much was happening at that time of year but I started another post at the beginning of March and never published…
The drought goes on with no real sign of easing. This week saw a couple of days when there were a few showers about but none lasted long and most were no more than drizzle, the accumulated total was 3mm. 3mm of rain over the 500m2 of our garden is 1500 litres, which sounds and…
August already and as much as I don't want to be wishing my life away, I shall be glad when this summer starts to slide into autumn. I'm managing to keep most things alive but we've got the garden open a couple more times, two pairs of days, and its looking so beaten down it'll…
I have about 6000 litres of water storage in various tanks around the garden and have used probably around 75% of it. The days are getting shorter, maybe we'll get a little bit of respite from the heat, maybe there'll be enough rainfall to add a few days supply, or maybe not. I've not used…
Friday garden opening done and dusted, Saturday to go. It's been an uphill struggle but I have coaxed most of the garden through to this point of the summer in reasonable condition. The next two pairs of open days are in three and six weeks time. I'm less optimistic about how it will look by…
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