ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I don't know how many Begonias I now have, I have a list of them but haven't updated it in a while. I will admit to more than a slight tendency to being obsessive but I really try very hard to restrict new purchases to things that are distinctly different from anything I have already…
We had a 24 hour holiday midweek, joining one of my sisters in a holiday rental place in Porthleven, a place I'd never been to. Tuesday afternoon and evening we saw the sights, imbibed the beer and consumed the local fare, not to mention getting a good measure of the local weather. Wednesday we headed…
Three weeks on from my last allotment post and I'm quite surprised at how much has changed, given that we're approaching mid October. I'd cleared space between my new tunnel and the end of the plot. On the 24th I planted strawberries that I took from my abandoned plot 3. The foliage was pretty skanky…
For a couple of days this week I was enjoying the company of my four sisters, something that has happened only at weddings and funerals since we were kids. A lot more eating and drinking went on than gardening as a result. They are now gone and life has returned to normal, with today spent…
It's not been a bad week weather wise but I've done very little gardening as I've had my eldest sister staying. In a place like Cornwall that means that you switch from normal resident behaviour to tourist behaviour and go around visiting places you normally avoid like the plague, but also places that are not…
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…
I've written blogs before about water collection and storage, but not for a long time. A couple of things have come along recently to prompt me to revisit it as a subject. One was an article in The Garden, about water butts. What particularly caught my attention was the observation that an average roof could…
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…
The area between my new tunnel and the end of the plot has largely been abandoned to nettles for the last four years or more. Now that I'm giving up my second plot, I cannot afford to have such wasted space so I had to grasp the nettle, absolutely literally, and bring it back into…
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…
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