housework
Priscilla went Very Fast on Monday morning's walk because the pavements are wet & it's just above freezing. It's also pretty windy & two advertising boards blew over as we crossed the river bridge, startling us both. We had a cuddle of reassurance which
journalling
Monday morning I woke up before my alarm and swept the guinea pig run and did a sinkful of hand laundry before the Big Spoon or the puppy were up. When we all live in a farmhouse together this is going to be how it's going to be.
gardening
The Story of a Governess (Gutenberg on Kindle) Monday morning at work was mainly indoors cleaning and mending, but I did stick the last bag of narcissus bulbs in the front garden, and I had a pleasant twenty minutes raking leaves. Borrowed secateurs and three garden gloves from the crate
gardening
Spark (Skin Books, #2) (library ebook) Monday at work I planted out the germinated broad beans in the four-metre trench I dug and filled with compost last week. They're Aquadulce beans, some of the earliest, and it's considered a success if the green shoots are
gardening
Over winter, just dig it over and leave it rough so that the weather can work on it. There's two schools of thought with North-South rows: one says the seedlings that are doing better should go at the back (North) because they need less help, other says
gardening
What did I once read about sunflowers pulling poisons out of earth? I know it was on paper and in my school days so I suspect it was in New Scientist or Scientific American, but a search for 'sunflowers toxins earth' gives me the keywords phytoremediation and (specifically
gardening
1 How do they classify soil types? Chalk, clay, loam, peat, sand, silt sayshttps://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/find-out-your-soil-type/and I know we're sandy and silty here just from watching my footprints on walks, but I was expecting a more quantitative analysis. Something more