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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 :)

oZzY %)

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!