ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
Was there once a time I didn't spend hours every day watering? Seems like something I've always done. I've focussed on watering pots, with all but a few recently planted items in the ground having to fend for themselves. Even among the pots I've been getting increasingly ruthless about getting rid of hangers on that…
That's another garden open day over. Not many people, but appreciative. I'd expect more tomorrow, being a weekend. It'd be a sad state of affairs if on a day I was charging people entry to the garden I was unable to find six things to feature here though there always seem to be an uncomfortable…
Another month all but over. What a week, and I think I probably got off comparatively lightly. I started the week with all my water storage full so at least I felt unconstrained with watering. Yesterday I spent putting up some extra, temporary and removable shading on a couple of the glasshouses; today I took…
Day one of 2026 garden opening done and dusted. Weatherwise an iffy day so might get a better turnout tomorrow with the forecast return to heatwave conditions. The garden club came Wednesday and were very complimentary. This week's six is a bit of a case of what they all might have been taken with when…
Where did that week go? I blinked and missed it. The garden seems to have slowed down, it's been relatively cool with very little sun and I went out today wondering what I could find to include in my six. Sue's cacti are building up for another show so I have a cactus header. I…
They're forecasting a very windy Saturday for us tomorrow, not really what I want. A fortnight away from a garden opening and all I can see are the things that will be over and the things that wont be out quite yet. I try not to make changes just before an opening, so I regard…
Enough already. I get fed up with overly hot weather just as quickly as wet. Take your eye off something for a moment and its scorched or shrivelled. And everything is over so quickly when it's hot; last week I was waiting for a peony to open, a week on and both that flower and…
It seems to me that the heatwave that arrived today for most of the UK was being talked up a week ago. It's been a long time getting here. I'm resigned to a sizeable chunk of the next several days being spent watering. Not that I'm complaining, well perhaps a little. Everything is growing like…
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