ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The weather has had it in for us this week. We hit -4°C earlier in the week then the wind set in. I don't like wind, it makes me tetchy. Another week has passed without me even getting into the garden much, far less doing anything useful out there. This morning it's doing that old…
The temperature dropped to -2°C overnight, -3.5°C the night before and -4°C the night before that. That's pretty cold for Cornwall and is what happens when you get a an easterly or north easterly air flow, low wind speeds and clear skies at this time of year. From all other directions the wind would be…
Very early on I realised that I couldn't remember what I'd posted in these sixes even a couple of weeks ago, so I started keeping a list of what I included week by week. Otherwise it becomes a diary in which it is hard to find anything. At some point I started putting in the…
The pace is picking up. The sun is shining, the flowery stuff is really starting to kick off. I've sowed more seeds, taken the first Fuchsia cuttings and finished chopping down all of last years dead herbaceous growth. In the autumn I sowed lettuce and potted them up in the greenhouse; we've had a couple…
Most of the time you can point a camera at a flower, focus in the middle, take the picture and get something acceptable. A wider aperture will blur out the background and the fact that the nearest and furthest points of the flower are slightly blurred won't matter at all. A typical single flower where…
We're off to get our jabs this morning, it feels almost like a day out, given that we are going to the Wadebridge Showground; twenty miles away, quite an outing. On top of a hill in North Cornwall when there are warnings out for rain and 50mph wind gusts forecast. Quite an outing. It's been…
The temperature yesterday reached 6.8°C, the warmest for a week, not that it felt remotely warm with the wind trying to go through me. This morning it's trying to rain, not pleasant at 2°C and still blowing. The only gardening I've done this week is armchair gardening. I've been trying to sort out digital photos,…
A month ago I wrote a blog about giving up composting, https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2Ft largely because I had a hunch that what was happening on the compost heap would be better happening in the soil. Today I looked at The Garden Professors™ – Advancing the science of gardening and other stuff since 2009 and there was the…
Throughout the winter I have struggled to find six things going on in the garden and have toyed with different angles, six gardening books, six tools, six views from a window, six types of rain. Now that the days are lengthening and things are waking up and starting to do their thing, I'm thinking of…
How time flies when you're doing jigsaw puzzles. January down. Hopefully this year will go better than last but I'm not holding my breath. At least the days are beginning to lengthen and the temperature's up a bit, meaning that a bit got done in the garden this week. One.Scale insect. I never like to…
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