Well, it must be cold, I have noticed that there are not many postings on the edible plants board and loads and loads in the Shed where it's a bit warmer!
What kinds of things do you established lottie holders do over the winter, to get ready for the Spring?
Ten x
Gain weight,press my nose against the window, watch the rain and sigh a lot! ;D
I am still working on my lottie, digging out brambles and nettles, I keep it covered with a plastic sheet so it is still workable.
The rest of the days my house actually gets cleaned, 6 months worth of dusting and laundry to catch up on! (just kidding!) and the best bit.......catalogues to browse through, with a lovely cuppa, watching mother nature doing her worst outside :) Dottie P.
Still get up to the lottie when the sun is shining and the kids are tucked up at school. But I move into my garden more this time of year as I can nip out between showers, or get down to the greenhouse, my home from home, and potter. It is amazing how many hours I can fill just pottering around. Then of course there are all the pre-christmas jobs, school plays, chrissy parties, shopping, visiting, shopping, drinking, eating, drinking, drinking some more.....then a few weeks to get over the hangover, shed the Christmas pounds, and look forward to planting, sowing, digging and weeding!
Yo X as the Romans say :)
All winter?, well so far all I can think about iz growing spuds next year and this place is where I come whe I am not thinking of spuds, in the morning I turn the heating on andthink of spuds. have a cup oftea and think of spuds, even talk about growing spuds at work, in fact I am doing there heads in wiv all me spud talk, in June I dun em in by talking incessantly about me runner beans, bet they thought they were going to get a rest wit winter here.. but I hate em all so much, they dont get off that easy :) :) :)
Oh almost forgot, I am growing lettuce at the moment, wardrobe catchcropping, got the idea from Tim... :) :)
dunno where the hell I iz going wiv this, but do you know, Anthea Turner has all her Crimbo
presents that she is giving out,
all wrapped up??????? SCAREY or wott?
Forgotten why I iz here, so must be a babble alert, but cant be sure, so it must be :)
cheers
oZzY %)
Wardrobe catchcropping?? Is THAT where MFI get their furniture supplied from!
;D
Ten x
Well i mainly just sit around eating anything in sight, which makes me get as fat as Santa ;D .
On Boxing day set off the onion seeds at the lottie (usually wearing my awful crimbo sweater and dodgy tie) :-/ .
Drink the whiskey till i collapse in a heap at the bottom of the stairs :-X .
But most of all enjoy the time off work ;D ;D ;D.
Forgot to say that Anthea Turnerhas brought and wrapped up all her Crimbo prezzies by the end of...... JUNE.... that iz one seriously wierd female bow-wow :)
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Quite sad I would say.Time she did a bit of digging in a Lottie.
We still have Jerusalem Artichokes to dig up - that'll keep us busy till February. Then there's the annual bramble cut back.
There's a bunch of us who make a point of keeping going through the winter - even if all we do is gossip!
I've also just bought stuff for the new fruit garden - Red and White currants and some Autumn Bliss Raspberries. They'll be going in soon.
We always spend Christmas Day afternoon over the allotment. Now we have a little gas ring, I can even cook up a little lunch over there! Anything to escape the lousy TV!