Tuesday, June 20

THE COTTAGE BOX BREAD

We’ve had another hot week on Zealand. Fortunately, the temperatures have been easing out of the red zone down to just boiling. Not a leave stirs in the garden upon which the unwavering sun is shining from very early in the morning until well after supper. The air is so tempered you hardly sense it when you breathe. You’d have to suck in a bug to feel it move.



Along the edge of the cottage box bread the dusty-green clove pillows are blooming in bright cyclamen while the earlier flowers in the bed are either gone or on the wane. Instead, the small roses have begun blooming. They are all perpetuals and will continue blooming until late autumn.
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TIMELY WEEDING
In the summer flowerbed the hearts of the reel cress leaves are gaining ground after the second weeding. The summer flowers reseed themselves, so you just decide which to keep when you weed. If your timing is right, you may only have to weed the bed three times. Once sometime in May, depending on the weather, then again when you can see the new shoots and, finally, you just pull out the last undesirables, when they are popping up through the cover of flowers.

2 Comments:

Blogger ela zawrat said...

that's a funny story, about re-telling the story in the book. Isn't it how it worked in the ancient times - stories were traveling by mouth, so to speak… Maybe she reads the book to the end, then she makes up the third version :)

7:24 PM  
Blogger Country Dweller said...

Hi miss Zawrat, yes, I think you're right about stories travelling by mouth. I don't know much about how they evolved over time, though. It could be interesting to look into.

6:35 PM  

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