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Article: When stars fall in purple jellies and 'chaos is at hand'
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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ANOTHER LIFE: THE LAST TOMATO plants and bean-vines have been
carried away to the compost bin, giving me a clear view down the
polytunnel, if one somewhat dimmed here and there by a glaze of
green algae. Sponging it off to restore the full flood of light is a
regular autumn chore for tunnel gardeners, but a summer made for
moulds and slimes encouraged the algae's cellular spread on both
sides of the plastic.
The rainy season also brought letters from readers baffled by the
sudden appearance, after heavy showers, of dollops of glossy, greeny-
brown "seaweed" on the gravel or soil around their houses.
"It looks," wrote Ann Ryan from Wexford, "as if it's fallen from
the sky." Her mystification ...