This is to celebrate Mary's up-cycling passion, applied to her even bigger passion for growing things. Firstly you need to know that Mary drinks a lot of water. Whilst at home she now drinks our own rainwater (quality filtered), however if we are away for a weekend she will not just buy a normal bottle of water but a big five litre job. They don't go to waste, they come home with us.
Now turn to the the garden and at this time of year Mary is planting out the baby veg plants she has grown from seed in the safety of the polytunnel. But it can be cold, and it can be windy. Not good for little delicate things like her small broad bean plants. So out come the water containers, bottoms already cut off, and they get well dug down in to the mulch layer. One pot over each plant giving them in effect their own little greenhouse. Of course if the sun shines a lot then off they have to come in case the plants fry, and back on for the night. But that's all in a days work for someone tuned in to all things growing, unlike Huw who seems to have a little blind spot at times!
[This blog updated as I struggle to get auto-stare to Facebook]
Now turn to the the garden and at this time of year Mary is planting out the baby veg plants she has grown from seed in the safety of the polytunnel. But it can be cold, and it can be windy. Not good for little delicate things like her small broad bean plants. So out come the water containers, bottoms already cut off, and they get well dug down in to the mulch layer. One pot over each plant giving them in effect their own little greenhouse. Of course if the sun shines a lot then off they have to come in case the plants fry, and back on for the night. But that's all in a days work for someone tuned in to all things growing, unlike Huw who seems to have a little blind spot at times!
[This blog updated as I struggle to get auto-stare to Facebook]
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