Month: February 2009

Reading and writing about gardening, despite weather in the way; wildlife station I was already enjoying the thought of another whole weekend outside in decent weather but the forecast goes: Saturday: Grey Cloud Sunday: Light Rain so I have to prepare myself for more miserable weather and less allotment than expected. Maybe there’s still time…

Space management, to do list for next weekend This week I am starting to feel restless for staying away from the allotment so many days in a row: but it is still 35 days before long days and British Summer Time! Is this hobby getting a bit out of hand?!? This winter has seemed more…

Crop updates, new bed, “nature reserve” The salad mix is growing really fast, no sign of any other seedling, but I planted quite a few new things shallot Vigarmor salad Lollo Rosso celery Victoria sweet peas (5 varieties, leftovers from last year) tomato San Marzano chamomile (lawn) and pea Twinkle (last year it did nothing,…

Crop updates, acting on plan It was a sunny day so I spent the whole of it gardening. The snow has finally gone, so it was time to inspect how the different plants were faring. Gloom on the artichoke patch: most of them have rotted – I was so looking forward to eating artichokes this…

Reflections on prices and wartime slogans Tonight I went to Waitrose – it must have been a while – and I was a little bit shocked by how much I spent. Be it because of the credit crunch, the strong Euro, oil prices, general lack of sustainability of our way of living, or all of…

Mid-winter crop updates It was good to go back after two weeks and the weather was also decent enough. Understandably not many people around, only Geoff and me: a usual winter weekend. While outside it is still pretty much frozen, the greenhouse thermometer recorded -5 to 30 degree centigrades since the last time I was…

… for the good of my health and wealth! Or, gardening-related addictions. I came home tonight and I was really tired, so I went on T&M website for some relaxing online shopping therapy. While filling my shopping basket with all sort of exciting plants, I decided to have a look at my orders database for…