I’ve updated my Real-Time Energy Usage widget in the right hand side panel to update every 10 seconds.
So if you wait and watch, after 10 seconds, it should change!
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Real-Time Energy (electricity) Usage from my Wattson (electric) Smart Meter
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Planting out tomatoe plants
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Due to, too much light, my tomatoe plants have “bolted”, and are very “leggy”. Anyway best plant them out, there not going to produce tomatoes in the porch!
before planting out
A stack of growpots, helps promote growth and saves water. This year I’m using two growbags to double-up the depth of compost. The growpots will also help as more compost is deposited in the collar.
tomatoe plants planted out
tomatoe plants next to greenhouse
Angus hides from the rain
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Angus hides from the rain
he’s not as stupid as we think!
Somewhere over the Rainbow…
Friday, June 19th, 2009With the summer showers we are currently experiencing, a rainbow formed, so Lindsey took a photograph! – I just went off to look for the crock of gold!
Rainbow over the Yorkshire Wolds
Stephen are you happy now?
Shouldn’t you be working?
Nasturtium majus Black Velvet – I don’t think so – Deja Vu
Thursday, June 18th, 2009The colour of these flowers are supposed to be deepest red-black, hence why they are called Nasturtium majus Black Velvet? I must be suffering deja vu, this happened last year, seeds sold to me as Nasturtium majus Black Velvet, didn’t come up with deepest red-black blooms.
Supposed to be Nasturtium Black Velvet?
This is what Nasturtium majus Black Velvet is supposed to look like:-
Nasturtium majus Black Velvet
Spot the difference?
Another email to Customer Services, I think…
Goldfinch Update
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Here’s a small video clip of the Goldfinches visiting the feeder in my garden.
I now get four Goldfinches regularly visiting the feeder everyday. The only problem is being a 2 port feeder, they squabble over which bird gets the food, as can be seen in the video clip. Video clip is taken about 30 feet from the feeder, they get spooked if I’m closer. Time for a larger feeder!
twitter broke!
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009looks like twitter is broke!
too many tweets!
World Wild Parrot Fund
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
World Wild Parrot Fund
I found this scan of a caricature of me, lying around on an old computer, I’m decommissioning, and will be scrapped. A friend scribbled this on a post-it note in the 80’s. The joke was I used to wear a purple and green feather earing! (I still have them!). Anyone see the resemblance?
Spotted climbing perch (Ctenopoma acutirostre)
Sunday, June 14th, 2009When I was in Otley today, I visited Waterworld in Stephen H Smiths Garden Centre. I noticed two fish in a tank, I’ve not seen for sale in a very long time. They were labelled as Archer fish, but they we clearly not Archer fish and labelled incorrectly. Oddballs of the tropical fish world, so I snapped them both up.
The fish I bought are Spotted climbing perch (Ctenopoma acutirostre), commonly called the Leopard bush fish or African leaf fish, not to be confused with the real leaf fish from South America. The Spotted climbing perch is endemic to the Congo river basin in Africa. (Ctenopoma acutirostre distribution map) It is part of the unique Anabantidae family, that is freshwater fish that originate from South East Asia and Africa and is therefore related to the Siamese fighting fish (Betta Splendens) and all gourami species. The Anabantidae family can breath atmospheric air using a accessory organ called a labyrinth and create bubblenests to breed.
Spotted Climbing Perch, Leopard Bush fish, African Leaf fish (Cteponoma acutirostre)
Must not keep them with anything small, as they are predators!
Digging in the dirt
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Potatoe Farm
I lost my footing this evening and fell over in the potatoes, and couldn’t get up! Lindsey had to help me up, so some of the potatoes plants are crushed because I fell on them!
I harvested two bags of potatoes this evening, as I needed 500grams of new potatoes for a salad recipe.
First Early Harvest
After Lindsey had seen what I had dug she commented “new potato salad off the menu then”!
The smaller micro-potatoes we boiled-up all the same, and they were very tasty. But what I failed to understand, is why the larger potatoes were very green, these were not near the top, so I don’t think light had caused them to go green, as I had earthed up the potatoes, I’m now wondering if I’ve left them in the ground too long, or harvested them too early.
So we didn’t eat the green potatoes, as I’ve read green potatoes can be poisonous!
Oh well, there’s always the second earlies, salad and main crop to try, and then Xmas Potatoes!
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