ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It looks like yesterday morning's frost may be the last and that we are going to get slightly higher temperatures in the next week or two. We had a good bit of rain overnight but less seems to have found its way into my storage system than I would have liked. A lot of things…
Weird it is. For a good part of yesterday the sky to the south of us was black with rain coming down in sheets. There were several claps of thunder though I didn't notice any lightning flashes. We had about five drops of rain, the rest missed us. Normally that would have been a good…
It's been more than five months since the last episode of this particular saga. I had taken down our polytunnel and was contemplating how to extend the greenhouse. It turned out that Elite, who made the original glasshouse, still make an almost unchanged model and that they would supply an extension kit. I placed the…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 5 – 27/4/2021
The greenhouse extension is done, all that remains is to sort out shelving and staging. It won't last but at the moment it actually feels spacious. Building has meant that apart from watering, all other gardening has been neglected, so I'm keen to wrap it up and get back to weeding, planting, pricking off, potting…
Most mornings this week there has just been a touch of ground frost and in desperation to get some space, a few risks have been taken. I planted tomatoes in my tunnel and have been putting things out by day then back in at night, or not if I'm feeling lucky. Planted a Begonia out…
It seems that this is the year it must happen. The oldest plant in our garden is an Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ that was a young plant just a couple of feet tall when we moved in over thirty years ago. I know it’s the oldest because it is the only plant still left that was…
All week the forecast has been for overnight frost or pretty close and so far it hasn't materialised. I want to start moving things out from the greenhouse to make room for veg being grown for the allotment. It looks like this weekend sees the back of it for a while. It being pretty cold,…
This has to be my favourite season, so much is happening or starting to happen. You get to see what has survived the winter, whether the apple grafts done in January have taken, which seeds have finally germinated. On the down side battle is joined again with the hordes of slugs and every dip in…
Way back in November I ordered the parts to extend Sue's cactus house. It all turned up yesterday. 18 weeks is, I think, a little shorter than was predicted but it's still a long time to wait in these days of instant gratification. Most of that time has not been suitable for putting it up…
The frost and gales of last week are a distant memory and the camellias that were trashed have mostly made a good recovery, with others just getting under way. It's Camellias all the way down this week; if you don't like pink, look away now. Or you could go back to the running man's link…
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