ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Oh so gloomy out. It's dry and not exceptionally cold, so usable weather for doing the things that need doing, but there's not a lot of pleasure in it. I need to get out there, I have things needing doing. One. Two years ago at this time we were down under in Australia. Their fruit…
For a while now, not a lot has been changing from one weekend to the next, at least where the garden is concerned. We have a couple of three frosty nights coming up, so that might be about to change, followed by a dry week. One. The only frost we've had here was on the…
There seems to be fair bit of stuff that is perhaps a bit too far on, at risk of getting frosted, vulnerable to slugs. Then there are last year's leftovers, things like Salvia and Plectranthus, that got singed by frost but are still hanging on. Difficult to know what to try and protect, what to…
It's been a dry week and I should have done lots of gardening but I haven't. There are a few minor things happening but I thought they'd keep for another week. Instead I've set myself a small challenge, to come up with six different takes on the same thing. It seemed like a good idea…
There are odds and ends of things flowering in the garden. Some are in their normal flowering season, most are aberrations, an odd very late or very early bloom, usually very tatty. I'd hoped for Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' but it wasn't to be. There are buds still but they're not opening. Makes you wonder what…
Well here we are twixt Christmas and a new year, again. I should reflect on the year just gone. . . . . . . . ., there, that's done. Perhaps some resolutions for next year? Nah, don't like the sound of that, let's go with good intentions rather than resolutions. One. Move the tunnel.…
I have been a member of the Alpine Garden Society for a very long time and every year they produce a most impressive seed list which for one reason or another, I've never had anything from. This year that changed, I dipped my toe into the 5621 items on the list, picked my allocation of…
The output from my solar panels gives me a check on how much we've seen of the sun this month and it's not a lot. It's still already higher than for the whole of December last year though. The total for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week wouldn't have brewed a cup of tea. In…
Picking up from where I left off last week finds me down from the summit of Brown Willy and about to take off across open moorland. I have been up here in fog and the lack of features makes it very disorienting. You want a heading of 35°. The first low hill has a couple…
I've done a fair few of these six on Saturday posts and it occurred to me to wonder whether I'd missed anything, so I took a stroll round the garden and noted a few things I thought I might never have included, then came back in and checked. I could do at least three weeks…
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