ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
OK, let's keep this brief. The allotment post I did a week ago was the first since October 2022, a gap of nearly two years. The seeds I reported on in the tunnel last week are growing apace and I have planted out small lettuce plants beside them. Three have been eaten by slugs but…
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…
Sometimes with vegetable gardening you get in a bit of a rut, repeating what you did the year before, dropping a crop because it's repeatedly unsuccessful or you don't ever seem to eat it. It starts to get a bit boring. I had two plots, one of which I only took on because I needed…
Continue reading ➞ Allotment shenanigans, 5th September 2024
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…
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…
I was trying to cobble together a really short video of our garden to put on Facebook to publicise our last openings for 2024. I filmed lots of clips then tried to squeeze them into two minutes. Didn't work, the first attempt was three and a half. Then I had another go, which went a…
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…
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