ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I finally have my new computer up and running. It's much the same but not the same, lots of little things are different, some of which can be changed to what I'm used to, some not. I might be getting too old to be swapping SSD's from one computer to another then diving into disk…
I'm not sure how this ended up being so long. If you get bored part way in you might want to skip to the last 30 seconds before you quit. I don't seem to be making much headway with the technology; coping, but only just. https://youtu.be/Q1l6jj54ihU
27°C here today for the second day in a row, not as hot as "up country" but pretty extraordinary for September, at least by historical standards. The upshot is that the garden is looking good with lots of colour and the autumn wind-down seemingly on hold. We went down to the Tremenheere plant fair last…
The speed at which these Saturdays come around is terrifying. It's not like I lead a busy life and there isn't a great deal needs doing in the garden just now. My allotment is a different matter but there's been just enough rain to provide an alibi for putting that off. Yet here we are…
The sky out the front window is black, it's raining, and the sun is shining brightly. Out the back the sky is blue. It's been that sort of day. The garden is beginning the long slide into autumn; pretty much all the gardening that can be done has been done but it's way to early…
A monthly video ought not be too onerous, and probably wouldn't be if I was more familiar with what is involved. Here is a mere nine and a half minutes of me doing a quick circuit and stopping off at the odd interesting plant. The footage dates from 17-19 August 2023. I am already planning…
Yet again, it's blowing a hoolie and chucking it down, at the end of a week when a couple of dry days were something to be very grateful for. I'm far from being on top of the mess that is my allotment, but it's better than it was. The garden has also had an early…
I seem to recall that the RHS say summer pruning should be in the third week of August and all laterals cut back to one leaf above the basal cluster. My experience is that if I prune at that time, the terminal bud, and sometimes the one behind it, will break and make an inch…
I just came back from my allotment where I noticed that a couple of my tomatoes have botrytis in the main stems, cutting off the top of the plants altogether. It's turned into that sort of summer. I was hoping to collect seed from my peas for next year but they rotted, I will likely…
Storm Antoni will be lashing the South West right through Saturday, just what we need. Remember back in June, when we getting desperate for rain? Rarely has the warning "be careful what you wish for" been so apposite. Grotty weather has made gardening all but impossible for quite a bit of this week, so I've…
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