ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
November now and there's a sense that 2024 is winding down. However, the weather is benign and everything looks much as it did a week ago. Finding six things wasn't a challenge. Followers will know that the six to which I refer is Six on Saturday and to be honest, non- followers might have worked…
I put this in a Six on Saturday post in July 2024. Here is the entry: Saccharum officinarum ‘Rubra’ is the name I was given this under but no such name is on the RHS website so I’m unsure. It may well be ‘Pele’s Smoke’, which Tony featured a while back, or S. officinarum violaceum. It roots absurdly…
Look out the window and it's blue sky dotted with white fluffy clouds. Step out and it's cold, blustery and periodically threatens rain. I'm doing my gardening in short bursts interspersed with long tea and coffee breaks. Tomorrow (I'm writing this on Friday) I shall be at Rosemoor for the AGM of the RCM. That's…
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…
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