My Pal Peter
As he took the trouble to read several months of The Avenue's archive recently, here's a picture of my mate Peter. That's him on the left, Padraig on the right. Ugly pair of bastards, aren't they?
Leech or flatworm? Ants and Swiss Chard
For the 2nd time in a week or so, (1st time regarding dwarf beans ), I'm following Alys Fowler's advice, this time with regard to Swiss chard . Long story short, after midsummer plants which often bolt if planted in spring will resist the impulse to do so, probably because of shortening days; (I say shortening, but in Glasgow, in July, we're still getting 18 hours of daylight). I got a packet of Bright Lights , at a good price, (another reason to wait until July before sowing, lots of bargains, I've noticed). But where to sow them? Most of the 2nd bed is under a tarpaulin, but it wasn't quite big enough to cover the whole bed, so the last 5ft or so went under a sheet of plastic, (in the background of the photo in this post, here .) Transparent plastic was a foolish idea, weeds were growing underneath it, so I covered most of it with sheets of metal from the old shed. I decided to leave the tarp, but use the area beneath the plastic for the chard. Who-ah there...
Campden tablets are used to sterilise kit and equipment when you start your wine making process.
ReplyDeleteThey can also be used to stop the fermentation process (I think) when you are deperate for an early drink.
(I might be ugly but I'm not "porridge faced" ! ! !)
Well, they SAID it was tobacco...
ReplyDeleteHey, ugly's fine. They're drinking beer, which makes them okay.
ReplyDeleteYes, but the funny part is, I took that photo in Libya, so that's NON-ALCOHOLIC beer :-(
ReplyDeleteand it tastes like cold piss !
ReplyDelete(don't ask me how I know what cold piss tastes like !)