Month: February 2009

Nothing worth discussing Weather is still miserable and the snow has not thawed yet: it is quite dangerously slippery so I did not venture to the allotment. A pity though this is as it should be seed planting time, if I was at all inclined to look at the brigh side, I should think that…

I mentioned a while ago that I would draw a map of the plot to plan my planting for this year: I drew it a while ago, and I have been loosely using it to plan space first for potatoes (when they seemed too many for the plot) and now for group B (beans and…

Crop updates, vagaries of the weather I popped into the allotment on Sunday morning but did not last a whole hour: it was freezing cold, do not remember ever feeling so cold out there before! No sign of mushrooms whatsoever, my salad sprouts are still there: green, not wilted but neither grown visibly – not…