Posts by andrew llewellyn
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As did my Jack Russell Alice, who used to (may she rest in peace) delicately prize each ripe berry off with her lips without damaging the plant in any way. The birds didn't get a look in.....
Our labrador will strip the plum & pear trees is we're not looking - as far as she can reach up on her hind legs (that can't be comfortable, but looks hilarious).
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And that goes double for strawberries.
Oh yes - ours are much smaller than commercially grown ones. But tastier.
And to have a happy little boast - we picked more than 5kg of the sweetest raspberries this weekend. They seem to be growing about a kilo a day.
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In my experience they crash very soon after the sun comes out.
Which irritatingly coincides with growing season. It's just. not. fair.
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At least on the gardening front I won on broccoli (harvested and eaten while it was still $3+/head in shops. Score.)
Very good score Lucy, I find growing broccoli does wonders for feeding the local aphids and white butterflies.
Dude, there's this thing called 'the ground' y'know?
Potatoes like something you can build up the soil in as they grow - tyres, buckets, I just happen to have a load of 25 litre bags. We'll see how it goes.
What's left at the end just goes in the compost.
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The flavour of freshly picked tomatoes tends to be better than that of those bought from shops plus you get your choice of a much wider range.
Yeah, you're right. I've got them growing in black 25 litre PVC bags against a fence in full sun - some of them are starting to behave like vines & growing along the fence. It looks cool.
Planting potatoes in bags this weekend.
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You too? And all the bamboo stakes are breaking so I'll have to cut more before I transplant them into the big planter... sigh. The horrors of sustainable living.
Wow, you grow your own bamboo stakes! I'm impressed. And thinking some one-upmanship might be in order... ideas welcome.
Maybe I'll build a forge & make my own climbing frames.
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OTOH, as a homeowner who will actually have to borrow money to extend the house soon, I'm starting to feel guilty about the windfall ...
Me too. And I'm now wondering why I bothered growing tomatoes this year.
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I guess part of the point is that the flash doesn't harm the shot of something that it fails to illuminate, but it might illuminate close things a whole lot better...so why not?
It could wash out the foreground of a long shot.
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And don't even get me started on flashes at big events. I guess it can sometimes look really cool looking back at the crowd and seeing all the flash flickering, but given the effective range of a flash is under 10m, epic fail.
Yes, I often wonder what sort of results the tourists get from taking night time shots with flash of the city from the Cable car lookout.
Actually, now I think about it I had a discussion with some guy in Paris who wanted to know why I wasn't using a flash at nightime. Seemed to bother him.
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Precisely: what's yours is theirs.
Right, I'll het a webcam mounted this weekend & we'll see what the dirty pinkos get up to on weekdays when I'm not there.