The weather looked dreadful this morning - snow on the ground and sleety drizzle. So I had the choice of staying in the warm, or wandering down the lottie and doing whatever. I decided it was a good day to repair my greenhouse after vandalism, so spent the morning doing that, at least the roof was on, so I was protected from the extremes. After 3 hours, I was very cold, so appreciated coming home. Got into the kitchen and did myself a big steaming bowl of onion soup, warmed me through!
Anyone else stupid enough to brave the elements?
Derek :)
Gardening of a sorts, collecting driftwood on the beach for a new garden sculpture.
BBBBracing!
Only briefly to plant the strawberry plants which arrived yesterday - maybe I shouldn't but they looked so sad in their plastic bag with rubber bands. I also did what Gardener's Question Time recommended a few weeks ago & put 3 plants in big pots in the greenhouse for early strawberries - we shall see.
Nope. Rained on and off all morning, plus had alsorts of children related commitments. Have however spotted that I have cauliflower and sweetpea seedlings through. ;D
Spent the afternoon sorting my pots and trays out from the garage, and putting them in the greenhouse ready for use. Then popped up the lottie, but the ground is very wet and not worth touching at the moment.
I also have a stinking cold again :(
Regards
Matt
Spent an hour looking at the plot and dreaming of times to come. Photographed a few visitors which you can see on our blog. www,hoehoehoe.blogspot.com
Nuthatch,
Your blog address has a (,) after the www instead of a (.).
Love the pictures, I wish I could get some bluetits into my nesting box, we put it up last year but none seem interested in it. I think it's a bit open for them, not nestled into trees.
I love the pic of Don ;D
Jo.
Thank you for your comments. The link at the bottom seems to work. Really hope that they nest in the box. We had blue tits nesting last year and the chicks hatched but some brain dead visitors to my plot decided that they would pull the whole lot down and trample on it. We have re-sited the new box a lot higher this year hopefully out of anyones reach.
Nuthatch,
I've just read through your blog and wondered what happened to the nest box last year. It makes me sick to even think about the mindless idiots of today!!!
It's nice that your allotment is something that you and your wife do together. I don't have a lottie but am going to start growing veg in containers in the back garden this year. There's only me really in our family who eat veg, but I'm hoping that I can coax the kids into eating it if it's home grown and they've had a hand in growing it. They'll eat certain things, but they're both picky. I think my hubby is a lost cause though, he won't eat ANY veg at all. I can't understand what it is that he doesn't like about it.
Jo.
Only went to let chicks & hens out, feed them - and lock em up again tonight. Roof on cree needs re-felting. Maybe tomorrow - weather permitting.
went to the plot to see the new fencer, he's just finished the last bit, three others there so we all sat in the warm with a cuppa and put the world to rights and had a laugh, very cold and drizzly :)
Unfortunately it's been pouring with rain here pretty much all day, so no hope of any lottie related activity i'm afraid. Hoping tomorrow will be better, still need to lay 3/4 of our path. If we can't do that, then we'll get some seeds going in propogators.