ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I did a talk for St Breward Garden Club this afternoon (Friday). Time was when garden clubs all had evening meetings but there are a few now holding meetings in the afternoon. Most members are retired, many are getting on a bit and don't find night driving very easy. It suited me, driving across Bodmin…
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,…
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