One) I know it's only an optical illusion, but plants are set off better by moist dark soil than pale dry stuff. After last night's deluge, which combined the most sustained lightning I have seen in my life with rain akin to the tropical downpours I've seen in Australia, moist and dark wasn't a problem.…
six on saturday
Six on Saturday – 20/5/2017
One. I was going to start with a picture of dead cabbages, the rootfly having munched their way through two rows. But it was raining and going up the allotment in the rain to take a picture of dead cabbages didn't do it for me. Two. Papaver bracteata. Every year this monster astonishes me anew.…
Six on Saturday 13/5/2017
Six on Saturday, or SOS; appropriate because my allotment seems to be constantly under assault by pests. Gooseberry sawfly is far worse than I've had before, I squash hundreds, the next day they're all back again. And I thought the slugs had been chewing my cabbages, turns out it's rootfly. Nematodes will be ordered and…
Six on Saturday 6/5/2017
"The Propagator" has just launched a new meme which struck a chord with me, so this is by way of climbing on board. Six things going on in the garden. 1) This is Camellia 'Nightrider', very dark, very late flowering and with new leaves a similar colour to the flowers but shiny. It's a very…
