Productive Working Environment

Welcome to my office. It's one of those typical brisk Scottish spring days - bright but the wind is blowing the tea out of the cup. So my flexible work pattern kicks in and I'm hotdesking on some new projects indoors.  With the windward door firmly closed, it's approaching 30degC in here. The place might look like it has a low utilisation rate but it's keeping up a supply of highly billable spinach, salad leaves, coriander and radish. Work in progress includes early potato shoots, strawberries in flower, and embryonic apricots. The cape gooseberries have overwintered and even the forecast for the formerly forlorn hardy kiwis is looking up. But top of my key performance indicators this week is my cauliflower pakora. That's not a bookie's pencil by the way. 

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Water Teems?

It's been a long time and the garden has moved on a shallot in the last 18 months. But any sustainable gardening blog must start with a fresh look at one's integrated water management policy. Yes, I've got a raingauge. The real-time tipping bucket web transmission will have to wait. Aesthetics is more important at this stage, and so a shapely antique copper monthly collector will have to suffice. It is, of course, the met office approved distance of twice the height from the nearest obstruction.

Hot off the kitchen scales is the March total. For information, I will be giving a comparison of the dustbowl figure with a random place somewhere in the wet tropics.

2014 (mm)	Snab	Brize
January	34.5	155.2
February	42.5	105.7
March	21.0	56.6 (+dust)

The data will be used to inform the climate change apricot adaptation strategy and parsnip risk profiling scenarios.