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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Today I unloaded the disastrous trial in one of the blue bins. Each barrell is 55 gallons capacity and is solid plastic wall and base. I had, a month ago, removed the two bung plugs on the top, sliced off the base, and eft it open-base end up and started a new years kitchen compost bin.
Halfway through the month the fish carcasses arrived, so I forked in three or four barrow-loads of them, topped them off with four bags of grass clippings, and have had to walk around with a handerkerchief over my nose ever since; shower twice a day; launder shirts daily,…
Early this morning I dug a trench in the SW corner of the raised bed and barrowed half the drum into thatrench. I am now half-way through the contents, taking a nausea break.
Later today I will barrow the bin to the SW corner, up-end it and leave it to drain overnight.
Tomorrow I can shovel soil over the heap and leave nature to work a great deal faster. Millions of maggots and millions of flies. Are the LBB interested?
Monday, August 18, 2025
My Chain of Hearts has battled long and hard against my neglect and I decided to clone a few cuttings. Well: not so much cuttings as
In this image the existing poy has its creepers draped out over ten pots. I decided to split the current ppant into two parts and train the creepers from opposite ends of the tray.
In the tray of fifteen pots, one plant is trained according to the orange line and the second part is trained as shown by the yellow line. I hope that before winter time I will have fifteen pots of Chain Of Hearts.
Friday, August 22, 2025
There is no doubt about it – I have ignored our lack of rain and that has reduced my even-)minimal crop this year. Future years I could track data and signal om the fifth data without recorded rain?
Thursday, August 28, 2025
I builr a two-foot wooden bin for next years kitchen garbage. Painted glass jars (yellow) for jade; assembled the timber for the FREE BULBS sign tomorrow.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
One of my tasks is " Trim aspen trees", buit right now I find it exhausting; I must lift my body-weight up and down the ladder about four times for each limb. I leave the task in place and tell myself "I have tackled two more trees for five limbs", which is progress. David's shed is in the background.
The first batch of limbs; I must saw these into manageable chunks and put them on my bonfire.
At the end of the job, the trees seem to be normal, unlike the first three trees I lopped in the backyard.
The view from David's shed. The trees don't appear ugly. I know that removing up to three limbs per tree per year will be steady and attractive progress
I suspect that my next step will be to lop-the-top!