I found this when dotting about in flickr. Laughed away my hangover.
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
Have a look at the smaller Flickr-to-blog versions you can use. The setting is in 'layout', I think. In your blogs list. There is definitely one that fits this template. I've used it before, here: http://swingsweblog.blogspot.com/ . Heck, even after only one month, that site is looking dated, isn't it? But it might give you a sortof general flavour-sih of whence we came.
ReplyDeleteNight owls rule. :)