Month: January 2010

Lovely lovely day but freezing cold, with icy ground, so the only things I could do today were: trimming bushes, tidy up the shed, and try my new hickory axe. The axe works (such a useful tool to have on an allotment by the way) so I have split a pallet in two, in view…

All the snow melted, the soil is surprisingly dry and crumbly: today it was the perfect day to weed the wildflower meadow around the pond and create my new umbrelliferae bed, next to the asparagus’s.I am very proud of the result, that you can see in the picture. Digging and clearing the dried weeds was…

I seem to have gone quiet on my blog, but I am doing a lot of gardening thinking. First of all, I have progressed with my study, putting together a good summary of stems after the one on roots I posted before. Then, over the weekend, I almost read three books: one on self-sufficiency &…

Stuck indoor once again by beautiful (I do mean it!) snowfall, and having given up addictive iPhone game, I spent the edges around my working day trying to concentrate again on my future in horticulture. Garlic caught my attention, as I remembered that the two variants I was given by Neil and did plant before…

This morning I did go to the allotment and, opening the shed, I found it deceptively dry and almost cosily cool. However, the graceful lacey pattern on the inside of the roof left no doubt that there was no hope for any gardening today! In fact it was so cold that the soil was frozen…

We had the snow, then a thick fog so it was a great time to spend indoor and relax, doing all the stuff I had left for months, some for years, like making pasta! I did my stocktaking: it came out last year I had been particularly keen on flowers, and fruit. I made a…