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...
good to see you back, Mr N. Wondered on occasion if anything had happened, bad like... Are you still playing piano? started myself and got myself an Alesis Micron... so much fun... Anyway, been VERY BSC recently (hence a lack of posting myself) and talking to professionals.. small steps..
ReplyDeleteand you changed your site...
Sorry to hear about the horrors.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember changing the site, I must've clicked through some shit one night, "with drink taken". I don't think I like it much, or maybe it's just taking a bit of getting used to - I'll give it another week or so of obsessive blogging about my latest camera.
Back home in Scotland now. I stopped blogging in Shanghai, the Great Firewall makes seamless surfing impossible, even with a VPN tunnel.
Given up the piano. Too old. Me, not the piano. I can more-or-less read music now, which is something I got out of the attempt, anyways.