ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It's Friday and I'm not going out to take any more pictures today. Hopefully I have enough in the can to put together a Saturday Six without an excess of repetition or deviation. There may be a bit of hesitation though. I've said it before but I'll say it again, Six on Saturday is a…
That great British conversation opener, grumbling about the weather, has been denied to me this week. Nothing to complain about. A good deal of the week has seen me in Sue's glasshouse, trying to get firmly on top of mealy bug before winter. I'm just washing it off with a pump up sprayer set to…
In spite of a week of ropey weather I have spent much of this week in the garden or on my allotment. The garden might be winding down but the workload isn't. Much of it revolves around tidying things up or putting them under cover for winter but I have also been sowing seeds and…
I just spent a lovely day visiting a couple of gardens down in west Cornwall. The National Garden Scheme people were putting on a do at one garden and we visited another while in the area. I just looked up the route on Google maps, 53 miles, going from well inside the east end of…
And then it was September. Where did August go, surely it had only just arrived. Not a lot of gardening has been done because not a lot has been possible. Summer is gone, there has been plentiful rain, my water storage is full and parts of the garden are slowly mouldering back into the ground.…
There have been early signs of autumn for the last couple of weeks, easy enough to ignore for those so minded. That changed on Wednesday with the arrival of the remains of hurricane Erin, even though it never came very close to the UK. We've had rain, quite a bit, and I've been scurrying about…
There's no escaping the fact that midsummer is well behind us and the days are getting shorter. Our garden openings are behind us, or so we thought before we were asked if we would have a small group, just four, round on Monday. The forecast for the weekend is warm, sunny and windy, not the…
Our penultimate garden open was yesterday, the final one today. We had a fair turnout yesterday and would normally expect more on Saturday than Friday, so finishing on a high.In spite of many weeks without significant rainfall it is all holding up remarkably well, and there are plenty of flowers with accompanying bees and butterflies,…
August. I was talking with my neighbour on the allotment earlier about how much of the growing season was left and whether seeds I'd sown a month ago would yield a crop. A day earlier I was talking to the neighbour on the other side about autumn sowing annual flowers in cells under cover to…
The garden is beginning to look a little tired. It needs a really good downpour and none is in prospect. Then there's the problem with Agapanthus, gall midge, which seems to have infected every Agapanthus plant I have. This morning I went around searching for and snipping off all the shoots I could find that…
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