Friday afternoon
Friday, September 9th, 2011 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanIt’s no use: the clock has started going backwards. It is Friday afternoon and I am slowly petrifying with boredom (I ossified many years ago; I am deep into the fossilisation process now).
To add insult to injury, I can’t have a lie in tomorrow as I have to be up at about 5.45am to get to Bristol by 9.00am or thereabouts. It’s the annual Gridiron draft. It’s at times like this that I question the sanity of some of the arrangements involved in playing an online game.
Still, there’s always Sunday, although if the weather improves we may need to do some gardening. We had to pull the tomatoes out last night to stop the blight spreading to the potatoes, which apparently are susceptible to the same fungus. We now have a big empty patch on the upper bed.
We do have some pansies to plant, though.
I was pleased, incidentally, to be informed this morning by Furtle, who has researched these things, that a potato that gets forgotten and stays in the ground, sprouting by itself the following spring, is called a ‘volunteer’.
This pleases me no end, for reasons I do not understand in the slightest.
To add insult to injury, I can’t have a lie in tomorrow as I have to be up at about 5.45am to get to Bristol by 9.00am or thereabouts. It’s the annual Gridiron draft. It’s at times like this that I question the sanity of some of the arrangements involved in playing an online game.
Still, there’s always Sunday, although if the weather improves we may need to do some gardening. We had to pull the tomatoes out last night to stop the blight spreading to the potatoes, which apparently are susceptible to the same fungus. We now have a big empty patch on the upper bed.
We do have some pansies to plant, though.
I was pleased, incidentally, to be informed this morning by Furtle, who has researched these things, that a potato that gets forgotten and stays in the ground, sprouting by itself the following spring, is called a ‘volunteer’.
This pleases me no end, for reasons I do not understand in the slightest.
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Date: 2011-09-12 11:22 am (UTC)We should be okay, though. I have been growing spuds in bags and I've moved the current crop away from the infected area and we've dug out all the infected plants. There shouldn't be any volunteers - I just liked the name!
I realise that we will be extremely lucky if no infected tomatoes are left in the ground, but we will rotate the areas and pull out any that self propagate in the beds we used this year.