ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Yet again, it's blowing a hoolie and chucking it down, at the end of a week when a couple of dry days were something to be very grateful for. I'm far from being on top of the mess that is my allotment, but it's better than it was. The garden has also had an early…
I just came back from my allotment where I noticed that a couple of my tomatoes have botrytis in the main stems, cutting off the top of the plants altogether. It's turned into that sort of summer. I was hoping to collect seed from my peas for next year but they rotted, I will likely…
Storm Antoni will be lashing the South West right through Saturday, just what we need. Remember back in June, when we getting desperate for rain? Rarely has the warning "be careful what you wish for" been so apposite. Grotty weather has made gardening all but impossible for quite a bit of this week, so I've…
Nearly another month down and with plenty of moisture the garden is slipping into its overblown stage where the paths become impassable and it doesn't seem sensible to try and keep any of it especially neat. Suits me fine. Not having to spend two or three hours a day watering has also added to my…
Oh dear, my short-list for this six is 13 items long. The garden has got its second wind, especially after a couple of weeks of cooler, wetter weather. We're open again this weekend, though the forecast for Saturday is pretty terrible so we're not expecting many people to turn up. I'm not much bothered, in…
St Swithun's day, or St Swithin if you prefer. I'm mildly impressed that someone has gone to the trouble of putting a detailed entry about him onto Wikipedia. He was the Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 863. He got credited with a whole bunch of miracles when they moved his remains on this day…
Horticultural highlight of the week was a Hardy Plant Society garden visit on Wednesday evening to Bucks Head House near Constantine. If you're anywhere near on a Friday afternoon, it's open for NGS; go. That's quite a long way from here, down the other end of the county and well over an hour's drive, so…
July, half way through the calendar year. Today (Friday) I woke at six to the sound of water dripping; drizzly rain. It hasn't altogether relented all day and now, fourteen hours later, the rain gauge is showing that we have had 5mm of rain, less than quarter of an inch, for those of you still…
Midsummer is now dropping away in the rear view mirror, a thought I no more want to dwell on than the continuing dryness. We had 15.5mm on Monday, it helped.I have just come back from my allotment where I've been watering. It is 8:50pm. When I consider how much goes in to getting what modest…
I keep looking at the weather radar, which shows a respectable area of wet stuff heading straight at us. I'm expecting it to fizzle out, or fragment into showers, or veer to one side or the other or to split and pass on either side. We were open today, didn't get many visitors. It's somewhat…
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