“This year, I thought I’d see if they will grow more productively in a container if sown close together, and then ‘thinned’ (the small ones picked out) as they grow. The first few pickings looked and tasted a bit like chives. We added these to salads and they were delicious. Then came small, tender spring onions, and finally a steady supply of full sized spring onions.”
— Read on www.verticalveg.org.uk/multiple-spring-onions-scallions-from-one-pot/
Testing posting from Chrome on iOS directly into WordPress by selecting text and pressing the WordPress button in Share. Not impressed. But now I won’t lose the article!
I opened the Royal Mail app to track a box of plants supposedly arriving today, and saw this: an estimated carbon footprint of my delivery’s emissions. That’s new. I suppose it’s a good thing that this particular delivery will be going in the dirt to soak up some more carbon. I wasn’t thrilled about having to order them in the first place, but I had a lot of seed failures, I didn’t get the wildflower bee and wildlife bed I wanted, and I need more native pollinators in the garden. But it’s interesting to see an environmental cost to ordering, put right there in front of me.
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Published June 19, 2023 by Warren Ellis
Also to do today. A couple of Xmases back, I got bought an Idoo hydroponic propagator, and the current batch in there – Zitava pepper, crystal lemon cucumber and Romano pepper — needs to come out today. The three pods on the far right are Little Gem lettuce, and they stay in there and get harvested as needed right out of the machine. Little Gem is a Romaine lettuce, which means it has actual protein and nutrients in it. They grow in little coconut coir pods, which you can buy cheap online and cut to size. The Idoo-brand hydroponic feed is expensive, but any good one will do, and I save a bunch of money by using this one, to great effect.
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Published June 18, 2023 by Warren Ellis
Garden day. The humidity is disgusting. But I have berries — gave the first strawberry and raspberry to my partner while she was home for a day. These, however, are going to be mine all mine. As will the blueberries that seem to be emerging. Cheapo fruit netting arriving later today.
Gave up on trying to grow rosemary from seed for a while, got sick of never having rosemary to hand, so I ordered some plants, and of course they turned up today when I’m racing to get stuff done in the office
I needed a cheap, tough watch for garden work, because I’m not wearing a Apple Watch or any of my three nice watches while I’m dealing with dirt and water and whipping branches and tools and swinging an axe.
So, for £30, I picked up a second-hand G-Shock Watch Men’s G-Rescue Black/Red G-7900-1DR off eBay. It came in a bag with no instructions. Took me a minute to reset the time. I have no idea what the big round thing in the top left corner is. The blue thing in the middle is a tide indicator, according to the internet. I just found what purports to be the operation manual site, but it does not work well. (noting this largely for myself)
All I need to know is this: it works in the wet and in the cold and it’s extremely hard to destroy. No more wrestling my phone out of a secure pocket just to see what the time is. Or carefully working out there with an Apple Watch on that buzzes my wrist every couple of minutes.
Another grey day with a chill in the air. My body thinks it’s still February and wants me to go back in the cave to finish hibernating.
ON DECK: Unless something else happens during the day, I’m bulling my way through to the end of a treatment and then going to a new project outline tonight. INBOX: 75, but that’s mostly delivery notifications. Ran out of everything at once. LISTENING: Night Tracks. READING: PROCESS: THE WRITING LIVES OF GREAT AUTHORS OUTSIDE: this article on THE PAPER:
Where are you? OG: I’m home today but I usually work at the Cardiff University hospital library. It’s got a good, studious atmosphere, as I’m surrounded by lots of extremely stressed medical students drinking Monster energy and reading about bones.
What can you see from your desk/ through the window? EM: I don’t have a fixed desk space at home—sometimes I sit by the front window, but it can be quite distracting. Like the other morning I ended up charging a scaffolder’s tools cos the guy he was working for on the street wouldn’t open the door to him, then I ended up chatting for ages with a different guy who used to live in this house, who made his presence known by shouting, ‘Is the pond still out the back?!’ at me repeatedly through the window.
In the garden, it has come to this: plant hats.
So many of the gardens on our street have been paved over that it seems all the slugs and snails in the postcode have come to live in ours. Therefore, I’m trying everything I can find to help my plants survive.
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Published March 26, 2023 by Warren Ellis
Don’t normally post at the weekend, but I wanted to record budding on the new apple trees. There is yet hope.
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Published March 24, 2023 by Warren Ellis
Just arrived. Thanks to Cate Winter for alerting me to the existence of black hollyhocks and finding a place where I could buy the seeds. Amazing thing to do.
