ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I'm sure the last forecast I saw yesterday was giving a minimum of 5°C and a southerly breeze. I wasn't expecting to find frost this morning. Nothing severe, fortunately. Having had a fairly busy week, I didn't do a thing about this six until this morning. Good thing it isn't raining. So, six on Saturday,…
February already, where did January go? Washed away mostly it seems. I'm sure things are improving but the pace is oh so slow. One. I joined in for a while with an End of Month View meme but ran out of things to say. I took this picture every month which was a good way…
I've done a bit of apple grafting but never anything on a large scale. I'm not skilled, I don't have years of experience but I can say that it has almost always worked, in that the grafts have been successful. I was however a nurseryman and I did have access to rubber ties and grafting…
Oh so gloomy out. It's dry and not exceptionally cold, so usable weather for doing the things that need doing, but there's not a lot of pleasure in it. I need to get out there, I have things needing doing. One. Two years ago at this time we were down under in Australia. Their fruit…
For a while now, not a lot has been changing from one weekend to the next, at least where the garden is concerned. We have a couple of three frosty nights coming up, so that might be about to change, followed by a dry week. One. The only frost we've had here was on the…
There seems to be fair bit of stuff that is perhaps a bit too far on, at risk of getting frosted, vulnerable to slugs. Then there are last year's leftovers, things like Salvia and Plectranthus, that got singed by frost but are still hanging on. Difficult to know what to try and protect, what to…
It's been a dry week and I should have done lots of gardening but I haven't. There are a few minor things happening but I thought they'd keep for another week. Instead I've set myself a small challenge, to come up with six different takes on the same thing. It seemed like a good idea…
There are odds and ends of things flowering in the garden. Some are in their normal flowering season, most are aberrations, an odd very late or very early bloom, usually very tatty. I'd hoped for Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' but it wasn't to be. There are buds still but they're not opening. Makes you wonder what…
Well here we are twixt Christmas and a new year, again. I should reflect on the year just gone. . . . . . . . ., there, that's done. Perhaps some resolutions for next year? Nah, don't like the sound of that, let's go with good intentions rather than resolutions. One. Move the tunnel.…
I have been a member of the Alpine Garden Society for a very long time and every year they produce a most impressive seed list which for one reason or another, I've never had anything from. This year that changed, I dipped my toe into the 5621 items on the list, picked my allocation of…
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