I've been trying to get to grips with the video editing side of Adobe Elements. I've use Photoshop Elements for picture editing for many years and through several versions of the program but only on my recent update of it did I plump for the video version as part of the package. Like the picture…
Apple grafting – follow-up.
Back in January I did a short blog about grafting apples in the simplest way possible. https://wordpress.com/post/gardenruminations.co.uk/8269 Here, exactly 3 months later, is a progress report. I grafted three scions onto three shoots of apple that had appeared in my garden. I think they may have been suckers from the roots of an apple tree…
Six on Saturday – 25/4/2020
Somehow gardening has become a full time job and I can't imagine how I ever had time for anything else. I seem to spend about 75% of my time at home in the garden, 25% on my allotment. Two or three times a week Sue will be up for a walk and we'll amble around…
Six on Saturday – 18/4/2020
We actually had a bit of rain yesterday, sorely needed but nowhere near enough. Still, every little helps. I torture myself by looking all too frequently at the Met Office radar; it's amazing how much rain just misses us. I've been up my allotment most days this week, almost on top of the weeds that…
If you go down to the woods today..
Somewhere in the hidden recesses of my memory is something about William Robinson and the need for every gardener to set aside an acre or so of their garden for woodland. I have tried, but with a garden of around one eighth of an acre in total, I have failed. My woodland consists of the…
Seed sowing, and then what?
I mentioned on Saturday that I’d sowed a lot of seeds this year. It may be of interest to some what I do with them if they germinate successfully. I use Sylvagrow compost for both seed sowing and growing on. It is supposed to have a base level of feed in it, but it is…
Six on Saturday – 11/4/2020
And so it goes on. Applause broke out at 8pm on Thursday so I opened the window and joined it, then someone went for a bottle of wine and before long there were all our neighbours out with chairs and bottles, all keeping a sensible distance from each other but socialising in a totally unprecedented…
Feel-good flowers
They put a smile on my face so maybe you'll enjoy them too. All things flowering in my garden today.
Six on Saturday -4/4/2020
I considered doing my six as a video this week but having done so for the RCM group on Thursday wasn't ready to repeat the performance. Does anyone know a simple way to get video from an iPhone onto a Windows PC? I managed, but what a performance. (I tried again and succeeded, it doesn't…
A wander round the garden.
The Rhododendron, Camellia and Magnolia Group South West Branch invited their membership to follow the example of their chair and post videos of their gardens. I can't compete with his and I can't persuade YouTube to let me upload it there, so I'm putting it here.
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