I just watched two different sizes of raindrops falling in the back garden. Glad I had no gardening set up for this afternoon - i would have been caught right in the storm wot passed over about 15 mins ago 
. I don't envy folk who work outdoors for someone else - they have to 'get on with it' regardless. I just sit indoors, warm & dry - and lose money.
Unless i feel like getting soaked, or am needy because there is no money in the bank.
When tending clients' gardens I go by the textbook, my techniques with my own plants are very different (ie chaotic/idiosyncratic) - I picked my first cucumber yesterday, it took me 15 mins. Why? Because it was firmly wedged under my largest courgette plant - it was more like a rescue operation
I only had space for one large cloche when i started the veggies off 2 months ago, so they all went in together: chilli, cucumber, chinese gooseberry & courgette. I have never had much success with chillies or cucumber before so had low expectations this time. Fool! The chilli plant is fighting with the courgette, the 'cumber trails 8 feet in 3 directions and the poor chinese gooseberry is almost buried (but it's a game little fuck). So the cumber goes under[/B the courgette and is now thinking of invading the plot next door and the others are just growing over & through each other in a chaotic but mutually supportive mass. I would photograph it but all you would see is a green clump.
It has just struck me that all occupants of cloche, as was (plants are now too big to cover), are 'C's, too which i can add a 5th: crowded
. I don't envy folk who work outdoors for someone else - they have to 'get on with it' regardless. I just sit indoors, warm & dry - and lose money.
Unless i feel like getting soaked, or am needy because there is no money in the bank.
When tending clients' gardens I go by the textbook, my techniques with my own plants are very different (ie chaotic/idiosyncratic) - I picked my first cucumber yesterday, it took me 15 mins. Why? Because it was firmly wedged under my largest courgette plant - it was more like a rescue operation
I only had space for one large cloche when i started the veggies off 2 months ago, so they all went in together: chilli, cucumber, chinese gooseberry & courgette. I have never had much success with chillies or cucumber before so had low expectations this time. Fool! The chilli plant is fighting with the courgette, the 'cumber trails 8 feet in 3 directions and the poor chinese gooseberry is almost buried (but it's a game little fuck). So the cumber goes under[/B the courgette and is now thinking of invading the plot next door and the others are just growing over & through each other in a chaotic but mutually supportive mass. I would photograph it but all you would see is a green clump.
It has just struck me that all occupants of cloche, as was (plants are now too big to cover), are 'C's, too which i can add a 5th: crowded
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That's ok though. I like that in a friend.