ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Last weekend almost went according to plan. Just a small matter of failing to realise the significance of UTC+0, meaning it didn't automatically publish at 7:30am but was manually published at 7:35am instead. I'm off to Rosemoor today, for the AGM of the RHS RCM Group. Don't even bother to work it out, it doesn't…
I have a complicated system of collecting water from various roof areas and shifting it around into various containers. In 15 separate vessels I have arond 4000L of stored water. I have just added 2000L more, in the shape of two intermediate bulk containers (IBC's), in the simplest way possible. Let me give you the…
Just another week? Well no, everything has changed, yet nothing has changed. I post my post, same as I always do, but the comments section assumes a level of significance it hasn't had before. I hope everything is set up as it should be, if it isn't I hope it doesn't prevent you from letting…
Here we are in the middle of October and this is how my allotment is looking. The plot next to mine (the one behind me) is all but bare, just some cabbages and Brussels sprouts, the rest cleared and dug over. This is Cornwall; it is not natural for ground to be bare in winter.…
At the beginning of the week the forecast was predicting terrible weather for this weekend but here at least it hasn't materialised yet. All a bit benign, allowing things to carry on going through their paces and putting off big collapses followed by big clean ups for a while longer. It'll happen soon enough, in…
Years ago a gardening friend gave me plants of both pink and white forms of Begonia grandis. It would appear that the correct names for them are Begonia grandis subsp. evansiana and Begonia grandis subsp. evansiana var. alba hort. The white form has proved the more robust but both are good performers if grown in…
An October edition of the television programme that I mentioned a month ago has now gone up on the Cornwall Stress Free Television Vimeo channel, should you have seventeen minutes and 52 seconds to spare. Bobbie the cat is clearly the star.
It's all still growing! The garden is becoming impenetrable, the paths disappearing under lush vegetation. Will it get stopped abruptly by cold or storm, or collapse under its own soggy weight? I'm tidying the bits that have really had it, but so far that's not much. The glasshouse tomatoes copped it yesterday but those in…
October, and the summer heatwave is a distant memory. Not that it's really cold and so far the garden is holding up well; he says as the rain comes down and the wind builds. No more than a fleeting shower in a breeze, by the standard set by Florida this week. Why we in this…
Here we go again, six on Saturday episode 280. Things just keep on happening in this garden of mine, which is just as well, that being the point of The Propagator's excellent Saturday soiree. One.Amaryllis belladonna. Again; not quite a repeat of last week as it's a different clump of them, in the back garden…
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