I needed to go back today. The owner wanted to be able to mow between the rows and was, err, struggling a bit? When I got there I could see why.
I should really have been back a while ago I think.
Anyhow, it was slow work, but I made a start. It’s going to take a while though.
Back to “normal” for whatever the hell constitutes “normal” these days. Forgot a morning reading, so this is just mid-afternoon and evening.
I had other things to do today, so work in the garden was largely limited to a bit of weeding around the brassicas. That involved removing a few volunteer potatoes which turned out to be an acceptable harvest for one day.
I also found one cauliflower that was “ready”. I’m not exactly impressed with it however.
That’s never going to make a family-size portion of cauliflower cheese 🙁
Getting a bit forgetful. I wonder why that would be? This is from mid-afternoon.
I’m sure I haven’t forgotten to take the drugs two days in a row.
I was sent seeds for this chile (Khang Starr Lingria) as a freebie with an order of other chile seeds from Chillichump. It’s not a well-known variety and I was somewhat worried that if someone bothered to breed a chile that small then it might be like eating napalm. Fortunately I have discovered this evening that it should be in much the same heat range as a Jalapeno.
For the second time this year, deer have been in, munching on the tops of my beetroot and my sugar snap peas 🙁
So frustrating. Between the blackbirds, deer, rabbits, squirrels, butterflies, pigeons and pheasants it feels like you can’t turn your back for ten minutes. Never mind the slugs and snails.
Not sure why these are so similar. Morning, mid-afternoon and evening.
Yes, really! And it’s 25°C today, which is about the limit of what I can normally comfortably stand heatwise.
My initial guess is that my BP has dropped sufficiently far at the moment that my muscles aren’t getting enough energy that they will turn into heat to keep me warm.
Am I the only one thinking “F.A.B. Virgil” ?
Ok, so perhaps not, but there were plenty of horseflies in the polytunnel this evening, all waiting for a victim (me) to provide them with a nice juicy blood meal. Though given the problems I’m having with blood pressure of late, I half expect one of them to bite me and then explode into a bloody mess as my blood spurts out faster than they can handle 😀
Regardless, twenty-one I swatted whilst I was watering! One managed to bite, but was dead before blood started to flow. So I think that leaves me at 69-3 overall.
