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Fed the birds..fetched some apples and taties from shed... ::)..that's how exiting the life is at the moment ::) I'm always so desperate for the winter break from gardening this time of the year..but now it is getting bit too much >:( When you don't have any other options than thaw your knickers on front of fire all day long, one is 'crying out loud' for spot of weeding :o..normally classed as swear word ;D

went to allotment site to discover 8 sheds broken into (nothing stolen, AFAIK)  >:(

so what just happened to all the posts between nov 25th & today? (they disappeared, why?)

Have they? I don't know about any missing posts. Weren't me.  :-[

I did some digging on Sunday - well clearing a patch of brambles and couch grass. Was surprised the soil wasn't frozen, it was just the very surface plus any tubs or planters.

Amazing to see little pea shoots coming up through the snow.

Not so balmy here.  Snow stil covering the ground, but the thermometer briefly went to 0 at lunchtime, so I dashed out to dig up parsnips for Christmas dinner.  Finding them was no trouble, but the soil was rock hard and it was quite difficult to get a fork in and then liberate them out of the lumps of frozen soil.  Still - we have parsnips!

nothing 6 inches of snow >:( couldnt make it to work either so watched telly

Quote from: tonybloke on December 21, 2010, 19:23:43
so what just happened to all the posts between nov 25th & today? (they disappeared, why?)

Were they buried under the snow! ;D

Zilch: but will be digging parsnips tomorrow - might need a blowtorch to get the fork in the soil but I WILL have MY parsnips ;D ;D

We have snow at the moment but I'm going for a stem of sprouts tomorrow... billhook will be the tool of choice I think...  ;D

Took the hammer and chisel up to my plot but could not budge the leeks or parsnips. Will have to buy them this year. What a bummer.

am going to try and get me parsnips out of the ground tomorrow

Fed the birds with more seeds and nuts. Ive never known them eat so much. Tomorrow I might have to go and buy some more from Lidls.
Lidl shouldn't be too busy .......I hope :-\

Duke

Managed to chop off some sprouts.  Taking the whole stalk as well.  Carrots and parsnips still rock solid under six inches of snow.

pulled (being the operative word) some swedes from a rock solid ground but it actually took longer finding them under the snow - who needs a freezer  ;D

Dug a few parsnips this morning

Quote from: calendula on December 24, 2010, 10:23:58
pulled (being the operative word) some swedes from a rock solid ground but it actually took longer finding them under the snow - who needs a freezer  ;D

I think I'd need a rock drill and black powder to do anything like that at the moment.

Fed the birds ;D ;D ;D, twice.

I went, I saw, I retreated. Everything is still like concrete.

 

             Put up my bird box facing 45 degrees N/NE,  fitted a new pull cord to one of my Brigg's engines, winter veg and garlic are doing champion, I think the next visit will be at the end of February :)

First of all found the plot!
Cleaned out the chickens, picked sprouts, pulled carrots out of tubs in the greenhouse, dug up parsnips and leeks!!!

I am totally astounded that all looks so good. On downside my dahlia tubers were still in unheated greenhouse and feel decidedly soft, as they never got put in compost in time.

I think I am lucky as my plot is sheltered, just been round to friends and their leeks and sprouts are not good and we are on same site.

Turkey stew for tea. :)
Anne x