ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It started with the Thursday night clap. Most of our neighbours were in on that from about week two. Then one of my sisters set up a get together on Facebook messenger and that has become a Friday morning ritual. Then one of our neighbours suggested we have a bit of a socially distanced street…
The nation's favourite flower, so if its very identity is threatened by an alien invader, it's a matter of great national import. I realise now, with the great benefit hindsight brings, that my early gardening years were a time of great innocence. Innocence is perhaps the wrong word because what I probably mean is ignorance.…
On the 6th of May three years ago I somehow stumbled across the innaugural six on Saturday post by The Propagator and felt moved to respond. I may have missed a week somewhere in those three years, I really don't remember. It makes this my 156th six on Saturday post. Perhaps you think I should…
I've been trying to get to grips with the video editing side of Adobe Elements. I've use Photoshop Elements for picture editing for many years and through several versions of the program but only on my recent update of it did I plump for the video version as part of the package. Like the picture…
Back in January I did a short blog about grafting apples in the simplest way possible. https://wordpress.com/post/gardenruminations.co.uk/8269 Here, exactly 3 months later, is a progress report. I grafted three scions onto three shoots of apple that had appeared in my garden. I think they may have been suckers from the roots of an apple tree…
Somehow gardening has become a full time job and I can't imagine how I ever had time for anything else. I seem to spend about 75% of my time at home in the garden, 25% on my allotment. Two or three times a week Sue will be up for a walk and we'll amble around…
We actually had a bit of rain yesterday, sorely needed but nowhere near enough. Still, every little helps. I torture myself by looking all too frequently at the Met Office radar; it's amazing how much rain just misses us. I've been up my allotment most days this week, almost on top of the weeds that…
Somewhere in the hidden recesses of my memory is something about William Robinson and the need for every gardener to set aside an acre or so of their garden for woodland. I have tried, but with a garden of around one eighth of an acre in total, I have failed. My woodland consists of the…
I mentioned on Saturday that I’d sowed a lot of seeds this year. It may be of interest to some what I do with them if they germinate successfully. I use Sylvagrow compost for both seed sowing and growing on. It is supposed to have a base level of feed in it, but it is…
And so it goes on. Applause broke out at 8pm on Thursday so I opened the window and joined it, then someone went for a bottle of wine and before long there were all our neighbours out with chairs and bottles, all keeping a sensible distance from each other but socialising in a totally unprecedented…
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