ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Wednesday was a day of almost constant drizzle which by Thursday morning was registering 7.5mm of rain in the rain gauge. Even so, such is the total area of roofs from which I collect rainwater that it added a lot to my storage. More rain is forecast for the weekend which should add a good…
Oh dear, doesn't time fly. My last post on ferns was in May 2022, more than three years ago. Since then I have lost a few and added a few, plus I have three years more experience of all the rest. In this post I will continue the roundup of the varieties I have and…
Friday evening again, on a very warm day that it seems wrong to complain about, given how few of them we get, so I'll say nought more about it. We are having to do a lot of watering and are getting through our stored water quite quickly. So far there has been no mention of…
We are opening our garden on eight days this summer under the NGS, in four sets of two consecutive days. Our latest was the 3rd and 4th of July and this video is for those of you who were unable to make it. Unlike my video of our last opening I have put a partial…
Summer trundles on, doing its summery thing. Back in the 1980's our garden was literally the corner of a meadow, though there is very little evidence left now. The farmer whose land it was is pretty elderly now and while he has been round our garden in the past has not done so recently. I…
I suspect that if I look in my draft posts folder that there will be one from earlier this year about my allotment. I'm sure I at least started such a thing and I would be unsurprised if I never finished and posted it. The allotment ticks over in very small increments so there never…
Nearly the end of June, high summer. I'm more or less into a ticking over phase, everything is planted and growing, it just needs watering and tying and tweaking to give of its best. It looks like we're due a short lived burst of heat, peaking on Monday at about 26C. Six items of interest…
One more hot day and then it cools down. I'm not a heat lover, 21°C is about my ideal; today's 27°C was something of a slog. Gardening as an active pursuit goes on, we've three more openings, two days each time, the next on 3/4th July. Changes need to be made soon after an opening…
On Friday and Saturday we opened our garden under the National Gardens Scheme. I wanted to do a snapshot of how it looked for our visitors so I attempted to walk most of the paths in the garden in both directions, filming as I went, but to do so in one continuous take. It's a…
Friday evening, still raining, as it has since about 1pm. Three couples braved the weather and visited the garden, three more than we had expected. Tomorrow should be better. Our antipodean visitors move on to London tomorrow, taking Sue with them, so it's going to seem very quiet. Between last minute tidying up and having…
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