ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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,…
It's Friday and I'm not going out to take any more pictures today. Hopefully I have enough in the can to put together a Saturday Six without an excess of repetition or deviation. There may be a bit of hesitation though. I've said it before but I'll say it again, Six on Saturday is a…
The traditionalists around me at my allotment site have cleared away their summer crops and dug the ground over to be left rough over winter for frost to break it down. NOT my plot I'm not a traditionalist and have come to regard such behaviour as sadly misguided. For me they are damaging soil structure,…
That great British conversation opener, grumbling about the weather, has been denied to me this week. Nothing to complain about. A good deal of the week has seen me in Sue's glasshouse, trying to get firmly on top of mealy bug before winter. I'm just washing it off with a pump up sprayer set to…
In spite of a week of ropey weather I have spent much of this week in the garden or on my allotment. The garden might be winding down but the workload isn't. Much of it revolves around tidying things up or putting them under cover for winter but I have also been sowing seeds and…
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