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Monday, November 11, 2024
While I was away in St John’s the wind managed to tip up my old book bin, now it holds only small plastic plant pots.
Here it is back on the ground where it started.
The same winds ripped apart a standalone compost bin; two panels broke free.
Here is a snapped cord. Admittedly thin nylon rope, and probably exposed to the sun, so being degraded, but still and all …
Another view of the liberated panels.
The water drums tucked away behind the shed were toppled.
Friday, November 15, 2024
I brought the vermicomposter in from the porch.
After using my garden shovel to poke around I found a Red Wriggler and reasoned that where there was one worm there must be two, and where there were two there would soon be hundreds if the vermicomposter was kept at room temperature, so I have recommenced feeding the vermicomposter kitchen scraps.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
I am in a three-day process (three window-ledges) or resetting my stock of jade plants. The window above is the south-facing window in my study. Each jar has had a “shot” of water.
In about half the jars only two tiny leaves, about 2mm across, were visible. The shot of water moved dust off the original leaf.
At each windowsill, jars or tins with no evidence of growth after a month will be re-filled with more jade leaves.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
I tinned a few more Bartlett pear cores, then set to work planting daffodil and tulip bulbs in the western bed.
At 11:50 I have broadcast daffodil and tulip bulbs along the bed.
The bulbs drop roughly where I think they might be planted in the soil.
At the start of the bed many dead skins cover the bed.
By 12:20 all the bulbs have been dropped into a trowel hole and covered.
Twenty minutes. Not a lot of work.
The soil was sieved and laid about six weeks ago; much rain has settled the soil down, but it is still easy to push a trowel in and lever a hole, drop the bulb, and continue. When I started digging a hole, I used the soil dug out to fill the preceding hole.
Why kneel on a plank instead of devising a simple machine to plant bulbs? One reason is that working the bed by hand, on my knees, I got a good idea of what worms were up to. Many small worms were just below the surface, so the cooler (5c) weather has not yet sent them deep underground.
That said I note that before dumping the sieved soil, I dropped several bags of grass cuttings from late-season mowing, so perhaps these worms are attracted to the vegetable matter.