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
How strange...
ReplyDeleteI watched the Jools Holland show too for a short while and mp3'd 2 tracks from it - one was the first Roisin Murphy track and the second was Battles Atlas which ran for almost 8 minutes and was over 12mb - it looks like great minds think alone judging by the lack of comments here.
wasn't too keen on Ms Murphy.
ReplyDeleteBut the good thing about Later is that every week there'll be at least one good turn on, if not more.
And, when you think about it, it's the only live music we have on telly now.