ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It's the end of month 8, which seems a particularly appropriate to pause momentarily and take stock of how the garden has performed this year. The growing season has all but run its course for the year, there’s now a slow run into winter, eking out the flowers by dead heading and enjoying a few…
It's been more than five months since the last episode of this particular saga. I had taken down our polytunnel and was contemplating how to extend the greenhouse. It turned out that Elite, who made the original glasshouse, still make an almost unchanged model and that they would supply an extension kit. I placed the…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 5 – 27/4/2021
I was sorting out backups of my too many digital photos yesterday and became side-tracked into looking through old photos of the garden. I was struck by how many pictures of plants I had and how few of the garden they were growing in. It was only when I started blogging, joining in with a…
When I removed the tunnel from the garden it was because it was a bit of a blot on the landscape. Sue and I have always acknowledged as much but it was just so useful that we were prepared to put up with it. Like much else, that all changed when we started to seriously…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 4 – 18/11/2020
Three weeks ago I had completed the stonework to face my side of the bank between us and our neighbours. The bank however, is only 70cm high on our side so provided no privacy now that the hedge on top had been removed. Last year the next neighbour along had replaced the bank between us…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 3 – 9/11/2020
Three dumpy bags of local quarry stone were carefully lowered onto our neighbour's parking area on Friday. I set to work straight away, wheeling it in my trusty wheelbarrow up to the top end of the garden. Two tonnes were shifted on Friday afternoon, the remaining tonne on Saturday morning. Our estate was built 40…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 2 – 19/10/2020
It was 29th September that I showed the sheet disappearing from the polytunnel that has adorned the top corner of our garden since 2014. I knew at the time that it wasn't going to get any easier. The tunnel came down very easily, was transported up to my allotment and erected without incident. I had…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 1 – 11/10/2020
