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
Oh wow..that IS SOOO CUTE!!! Even though I have 4 rug rats of my own I still melt to look at babies, esepcialy bald ones like mine were. Now they all have mops of white hair!! My time flys! Mine are 3, 5, 7 and 9yrs of age. I found your blog by random search. Nice to see. Will keep looking for more pics :-)
ReplyDeleteThere's less hair there than at a Yul Brenner fanclub convention!!! At least Molly won't be that way for long . . .
ReplyDeleteThat's such a lovely picture :)
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