ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It was April 1st 2013 that I first took on an allotment, plot 6. In August 2014 my employment came to an abrupt end and I have a photograph from 11th September 2014 showing my second plot with the grass yellowing, presumably having been sprayed with weedkiller a week or so earlier. I took it…
There are things that are definitely not better late than never, Covid being one of them. I have it; I don't like it. I've spent a fair bit of this week on my allotment and almost none in the garden. It's looking increasingly autumnal, to a degree that is all the more noticeable for spending…
Friday evening has come round again and it's time to put finger to keyboard and knock out another Six on Saturday. Should I be concerned that today is Friday 13th? I'm not, whether I should be or not. The temperature dipped to 3.8°C last night, which is pretty chilly for Cornwall in September, but looks…
September and I did a fairly quick whizz round the garden snapping away, thinking it was all in a bit of a downward spiral and now I look through the pictures I have at least 15 things I could put in. Opening the garden to visitors would entail a huge amount of hacking stuff back…
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…
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