It was incredibly warm today in Shaftesbury. Tee-shirt weather at the end of October. I had to open extra vents in the greenhouse. Gave a drink of water to revive wilting salads in pots. Also took the hoe to a smattering of weeds that peppered bare soil between Brussels sprouts and recently planted winter onions [...]
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26 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman NOT QUITE HOT ENOUGH
Monday, October 26th, 200922 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman STILL PICKING RUNNERS
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009With no frosts yet and continued careful husbandry, I’m pleased to report that we’re still picking runner beans. True, some are thick and twisted like grotesque green overgrown fingernails. Others are small and limp, unattractively brown and feeble-looking. But there remain bunches of smooth and gently curved beans amongst the turning foliage. Rummage through the [...]
Read More »11October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman MRS NAILS’ BIG DAY OUT, THE EVENING SKY
Sunday, October 11th, 2009MRS NAILS’ BIG DAY OUT Because I hate being in a rush we left Shaftesbury at 6am to get to Birmingham’s NEC for noon. As it was, despite a slowing of traffic flow on the M5 at Junction 14 for overnight road works, we got to Solihull by half-past eight. I can’t believe we made [...]
Read More »22 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SEX ON THE MENU
Saturday, August 22nd, 200922 August 2009 SEX ON THE MENU While sitting on a bench this morning amongst fruit trees with a cup of tea, the distinctive watery, sad-but-sweet sound of a singing robin washed around the garden and my ears. As flies and wasps and other bug-eyed insects circled, danced and landed on the flat umbel-shaped platters [...]
Read More »17 April 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman A CUP OF TEA WITH ROBBIE, GHOSTS OF WOODLANDS PAST
Friday, April 17th, 200917 April 2009 A CUP OF TEA WITH ROBBIE And still in Dorset we have no rain of any consequence. In the vale soils are hard and baking. Up here on higher ground the unprotected surface lightens in hue and is getting dusty. Early in the week I heard the forecast was for rain. It [...]
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