ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I cannot pretend that there is much happening on my allotment so this will be a short post. As I have explained in earlier posts, I am trying to keep as much growing in my soil over winter as possible and have been filling every available space with cover crops for the last few months.…
It looks like we're going to get another dousing overnight and into Saturday morning. Hey, it's late November, what do you expect? I still have plants out in the garden that need to come in, but I'm not getting into the garden much at the moment and the jobs are backing up a bit. I…
Last night saw our first real frost, still only around zero, a long way short of the minus 12 my sister had up north of Aberdeen. Half the garden would be dead if we'd had that here. As it is, damage was slight. Even so, there is a lot less happening, i.e. flowering, this week…
Mid November and we're yet to have a frost. There's colder weather on the way next week, but still looking like it should stay above freezing. Which is just as well since my winter preparedness is about as low as it's ever been. That said, one of the forecasts I use is showing below zero…
I can't quite believe that I've taken pictures over the last couple of days and now have more than enough from which to pick six. True, some are repeats of things I posted in the last few weeks, but that, in a way, is the point. Plants that were looking good a month or six…
At this time of year growth has slowed a great deal and not a lot changes from one month's end to the next. Or so I thought, perhaps wrongly. Perhaps it just seems that way. The bed in the picture below was cleared of maincrop potatoes and sown with green manure seeds on 22nd September.…
There's been a strong, gusty wind blowing all day here, but from the south, so not especially cold. Not pleasant to be out gardening in, but anything near to freezing seems barely conceivable at the moment. It'll come suddenly and catch me out with plants all around the garden that need protection. As an item…
The last post for October and the clocks go back this weekend. It's also forecast to be a good deal cooler this weekend than it's been. So what, I say. This is Six on Saturday, there must be something going on out there. And so there is; flowers, fruits, successes and failures. Then there are…
Past the middle of October and the garden is getting scruffy but there's still plenty of flower and I'm certainly not at the stage of doing an autumnal clear up. Which is not to say I haven't made a start on some of the tasks on my winter check list. Anyhow, finding six things to…
Well, storm Amy came and went and we're all still here. Seems a long time ago. I don't know how other people in the UK fared but there was no significant damage done in our garden and the slow autumnal descent into chaos continues at a very leisurely pace. There are lots of flowers still,…
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