ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I seem to have killed off the section on my home page entitled 'blogs I like', which is what happens when you start fiddling around without knowing what you're doing. I wanted to remove a link from the list, having received an email yesterday saying the blog in question had been taken down. I'm not…
It's beginning to look as if summer hits the buffers next Tuesday, with a big Atlantic low incorporating the remains of Hurricane Erin arriving. I feel like a dying man in a desert eking out his last few drops of water with civilisation just visible on the horizon, a few days crawl away, praying the…
We are opening our garden on eight days this summer under the NGS, in four sets of two consecutive days. Our latest was the 3rd and 4th of July and this video is for those of you who were unable to make it. Unlike my video of our last opening I have put a partial…
I suspect that if I look in my draft posts folder that there will be one from earlier this year about my allotment. I'm sure I at least started such a thing and I would be unsurprised if I never finished and posted it. The allotment ticks over in very small increments so there never…
We're just about to move into meteorological summer so I suppose if you don't have six things happening in your garden now then the only reason you're reading this is for the vicarious pleasure of seeing pictures from gardens that do. Or you're a long way down in the southern hemisphere maybe. The name of…
We look set for a lot of weather this weekend and with a Met Office amber warning hanging over us I am getting a little nervous. I write these things on Friday evening and by the time it goes out Saturday morning I will probably know whether that nervousness was well founded or not. We're…
There are people with large gardens who never water anything and there are people with small gardens stuffed with water hungry plants in pots stood in full sun, who never seem to do anything but watering. On a sunny summer's day we're in the second camp, or at least feel like we are. It would…
We had a very wet and windy day yesterday so I figured the algae that was starting to reappear on the roof of Sue's glasshouse would be easily brushed off. When I got there with brush and hose it was to find broken glass on the floor and a hole in the roof. My first…
Our last open day is today, which is just as well since most of the paths around the garden are getting hard to negotiate for all the vegetation hanging over them. Roll on 2025. I did a quick whizz round on Friday morning grabbing a few pictures, then set about some last minute tidying and…
From time to time we have grown the odd lily, with mixed results but at the lower end of the achievement spectrum. Mostly they have gone in pots, the only ones in the ground were martagon types and they haven't done especially well. Slugs have been a big problem but I also think our soil…
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