ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Another month has passed so another allotment post is due. I've been looking at some veg growing stuff on YouTube and there is a wealth of advice about what to do and how to do it, not all of which I'd agree with. What I am aiming to do is to look backwards over the…
There have been early signs of autumn for the last couple of weeks, easy enough to ignore for those so minded. That changed on Wednesday with the arrival of the remains of hurricane Erin, even though it never came very close to the UK. We've had rain, quite a bit, and I've been scurrying about…
It's beginning to look as if summer hits the buffers next Tuesday, with a big Atlantic low incorporating the remains of Hurricane Erin arriving. I feel like a dying man in a desert eking out his last few drops of water with civilisation just visible on the horizon, a few days crawl away, praying the…
There's no escaping the fact that midsummer is well behind us and the days are getting shorter. Our garden openings are behind us, or so we thought before we were asked if we would have a small group, just four, round on Monday. The forecast for the weekend is warm, sunny and windy, not the…
Our penultimate garden open was yesterday, the final one today. We had a fair turnout yesterday and would normally expect more on Saturday than Friday, so finishing on a high.In spite of many weeks without significant rainfall it is all holding up remarkably well, and there are plenty of flowers with accompanying bees and butterflies,…
August. I was talking with my neighbour on the allotment earlier about how much of the growing season was left and whether seeds I'd sown a month ago would yield a crop. A day earlier I was talking to the neighbour on the other side about autumn sowing annual flowers in cells under cover to…
A month ago I had just taken on another half plot, cleared a section of it and sown seeds of carrots, beetroot, perpetual spinach, chard, spring onions and lettuce. All but the lettuce germinated, mostly within a week to ten days. Emergence was a little patchy and in the weeks since the rows have become…
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