What’s happening with the weather gods? The rain has come too late for a bounteous crop of spuds but is perfectly timed to ruin my garlic bulbs that are desperately in need of a good sun basking.
I had a tricky decision to make this weekend. The ground was sodden and with no respite promised, the bulbs of garlic that had appeared to be drying a fortnight ago were now disintegrating into a white fluff. I decided to pull the lot up and deal with the drying task at home.
We’ve now got close to 100 bulbs of wet fresh garlic, lined up under every radiator in the house, acting as a dubious pomander. I’d put them in the airing cupboard but I don’t think the clothes would maintain their just washed, lenor freshness.
While I was despairing over the bulbs, Lynn was constructing the insect hi-rise. This has been a monster in the making – cutting hundreds of nettle and bracken stems to size has tried our patience but Lynn had the worst of it while trying to bring the whole she-bang together.
As ever with construction tasks, we start off appearing prepared, drill charged, screwdriver to hand, multiple assorted screws and so on but then the facade begins to crumble. Drill bits aplenty but they are all masonry bits, screwdriver does the job until the screw head flies out and disappears in the neighbour’s strawberry patch.
This is when the job really starts and the cursing and sweating begins.
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Dealing with gardens, roots and seeds is a hard work but lovely, i have one big and beautiful garden plenty of flowers, i live in Colombia and here there’s a lot of people living of flowers but violence is unfair with most of them, there’s a simple way to help them. I want to share this with you, http://youtu.be/uBoHeRtCYDs
i too have been scuppered by the weather and my crop of blue berries is looking very sad. is the any that can be done. I have some in large pots and now thinking of moving them into my green house and putting them under lights. Any comments welcome
John
Let us know how the bug house goes. I’ve created a tiny one with a bundle of bamboo cuttings but with all the controversy over whether they ever get used, it would be really good to hear from other normal people rather than people trying to flog them!
I saw some great ones at Hampton Court with Green roofs (pictures on my blog), and there is a good video about putting together a giant one on the wildfoul and wetland trust site (http://www.wwt.org.uk/our-work/wetland-habitats/rain-gardening/how-to-make-a-creature-tower)