ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
October already, how did that happen? I just looked back at my post for this time last year, I had Aster and Golden Rod still flowering; they're finished this year. I had just cleared away tomatoes; this year it was a fortnight earlier. The weather is lovely, the garden is looking in good shape, we…
Last day of the month and I'm on my hols. We're on the Scillies for a short break, made shorter by both boat and planes being cancelled on Wednesday when we were due to travel. It was a breezy force 11 here in gusts, we were told today, so it was probably better to lose…
For a while it seemed like autumn had been put on hold, there was lots flowering, quite a bit of new growth, and while it was all getting a bit overgrown it was at least standing up. Wednesday's weather was a blow in two senses and it's not looking so pretty now. Some Dahlias have…
I finally have my new computer up and running. It's much the same but not the same, lots of little things are different, some of which can be changed to what I'm used to, some not. I might be getting too old to be swapping SSD's from one computer to another then diving into disk…
27°C here today for the second day in a row, not as hot as "up country" but pretty extraordinary for September, at least by historical standards. The upshot is that the garden is looking good with lots of colour and the autumn wind-down seemingly on hold. We went down to the Tremenheere plant fair last…
The speed at which these Saturdays come around is terrifying. It's not like I lead a busy life and there isn't a great deal needs doing in the garden just now. My allotment is a different matter but there's been just enough rain to provide an alibi for putting that off. Yet here we are…
The sky out the front window is black, it's raining, and the sun is shining brightly. Out the back the sky is blue. It's been that sort of day. The garden is beginning the long slide into autumn; pretty much all the gardening that can be done has been done but it's way to early…
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…
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