I started planting out this morning. We appear to have seen the last of the serious snow and haven’t had a frost for a fortnight, which means there’s a good chance we won’t lose too many plants over the next month or so. Of course, we have had heavy rain and hail storms but netting [...]
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Small-scale tattie planting
20 April, 2012
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We’ve cut our potato planting severely this year as, thanks to my broken wrist, we haven’t been able to prepare the fields for planting. Instead, we’re focusing on new potatoes as they’re more expensive in the shops and we can choose varieties that we prefer. We’re planting four beds of first and second earlies in [...]
Read more Gardening in the snow
5 April, 2012
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Snow on the ground doesn’t mean the work stops. The new vegetable beds still need to be dug so we all went out to do what we could this morning. Fortunately, the warm spell a fortnight ago ensured the ground wasn’t frozen beneath the snow, which meant the soil was workable.
Read more Normal weather resumes
2 April, 2012
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The house felt a little cold when I woke this morning. Not bitterly cold, but definitely colder than the 14ºC we’ve experienced over the past fortnight thanks to the warm spell that saw outside temperatures scrape above 20ºC on several occasions. I wandered out the back door, expecting cloud and perhaps rain. Instead, I found [...]
Read more Six beds done, 18 to go
25 March, 2012
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Today’s good weather allowed the Other Half and I to continue working on the reorganisation of the vegetable patch. We lost a day yesterday due to rugby in the morning and my fractured wrist flaring up in the afternoon, but made up for it today. We finished the first of the root vegetable beds that [...]
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