ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I chose yesterday to get the sheet on my tunnel. The weather forecast was for warm sunny weather with very little wind and so it turned out. It all went reasonably well, though as with all these sorts of things you're learning as you go along and would do it differently and probably rather better…
My sixth item last week was a picture of a pile of packages that when put together will be a new tunnel on my allotment. Progress this week has been patchy, with weather and lack of the right tools slowing me down somewhat. The garden in the meantime is running riot, or going to seed,…
Now that we are done with opening the garden for this year, it can slide into autumnal disarray without us feeling the need to put up much resistance. Growth this year has been particularly lush so the disarray had come early and hard. Now it doesn't matter, since we are the only ones to see…
I've spent a lot more time on my allotment this week than in the garden. It actually got pretty warm for a few days mid week which has brought out lots of flowers. Friday was cooler again though with rain expected overnight into Saturday. We have a garden club group coming round on Monday, rain…
It's all just ticking over in the garden now. Nothing more will be planted until autumn; it's just weeding and dead heading and if it stops raining, watering; a bit of tying in and up. Our thoughts are tentatively turning to next year, what do we want more of, what has been a failure that…
We have just had a lovely sunny day with the garden open and it has now clouded over, is drizzling and the forecast for tomorrow, when we are also open, is for rain all day.On a much more positive note, at the beginning of the week we were getting very worried about opening because the…
Mid July and still the weather persists with being cool and wet. Looking at pictures from the same time last year I see there is a lot less in flower, in particular Cosmos and Cleome, which are way behind where they were then. We also lost several plants over the winter, like Salvia nemorosa and…
I'm getting a bit ahead of myself in that I'm writing this on Thursday, mainly because we have visitors coming tomorrow for the weekend. Barring disasters, what is happening on Thursday should still be happening two days later.It's high summer, though it scarcely seems like it, but the flowers know and the build-up continues. Here's…
Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Which it is, if you're talking about the garden and comparing it to a couple of months ago. The work has been done and now we reap the rewards. Pull a few weeds, water a few pots. Take half a dozen pictures and post them in a blog and…
Well, that's it, the longest day has passed. The druids will all have gone home. Summer, on the other hand, hasn't arrived here yet. As I write, it's raining, and the forecast for next week is pretty mixed. I don't really mind; it's good growing weather which isn't stressing the plants or burning my head.…
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