Tag Archives: growing

Leek sprouts, and grubby window

Thursday 4th June 2026, 5.05pm (day 5,397)

Leeks and grubby window, 4/6/26

It’s time these went into the garden, to be honest, but in the last few days the rain has come down and grubbing around in dirt is less appealing. A few days ago I noted there was not going to be much variety on here for a while, and so it has proven; a sixth post in the last seven from Hebden Bridge, and the third to have been taken in or from the house. You can tell it’s our place because of the grubby windows: and apparently they were cleaned on Monday.

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Ferns, or aliens

Sunday 3rd May 2026, 2.30pm (day 5,365)

Fern aliens, 3/5/26

In evolutionary terms ferns are much older than grasses, I believe. There is something primordial about them, a beauty to them as they uncurl, though also something disquieting too. I can quite picture one of these as the model for the creature that bursts out of Kane’s stomach in Alien, though of course that was the genius of H R Giger, who designed it, all based around these natural forms.

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Growing on the sill

Sunday 20th April 2025, 2.15pm (day 4,987)

Windowsill lettuce, 20/4/25

A profoundly uneventful Easter Sunday saw me barely even leave the bedroom, let alone the house. Well, I’m allowed days like that now and again (it would have been chaos in town, anyway). For photographic purposes it was helpful that the sun was shining, illuminating the lettuce leaves on the windowsill rather pleasingly. I’ll go out tomorrow.

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Pea nursery

Tuesday 21st March 2023, 9.30am (day 4,226)

Pea nursery, 21/2/23

How many of these peas will eventually sprout edible small green products remains to be seen: getting them started by the living room window is always the easy bit, each year. But we try.

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