ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
It seems to have been blowing a gale almost all week, and none too warm either. It's been a fairly productive week garden wise though, coming along. I've been playing with a new camera, it's going to take a lot of getting used to but I'm seeing potential. All it takes is six pictures and…
Another week of doing precious little else but gardening. I don't feel I'm getting ahead, but maybe I'm holding my own. At least the weather is playing ball, dry but not too hot. I still spend a lot of time watering, the price of growing too much in pots. I'm just looking at one of…
I took a call from a lady at Polgooth Garden club, wanting to pay a visit to our garden in June, a couple of days ahead of our first NGS opening. It's only seven weeks away! The last few days I've been going round thinking I could do worse than have an opening at the…
Oh what a lovely day. Sunny, warmish, the wind had finally dropped and it was a simple pleasure to be pottering around in the garden, planting, watering, potting on. Should I run out of things to do in my garden I always have my allotment to keep me busy. No shortage of things to include…
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