Cold winter days

Well the exciting news is we've gained another half plot, sadly adjacent not together, but hey-ho! At least we can grow much more next year so I've been browsing seed catalogues and planning the beds/rotation......just a shame it so wet it's impossible to get up the lottie and get cracking. As you can see I've already laid the paths for the beds as I did on the other half plot. This worked really well and means I haven't got a hugh digging job ahead of me to get the beds ready for next year.

Raspberry plants were a dismal failure this year so I sent them back and Victoriana Nurserys replaced them without any question. These are all now planted along with the Jostaberry (looking forward to seeing what this brings next year), and two Rhubarb crowns (Timperley and Strawberry)

I had great plans to create a new strawberry bed using the Phormisol ground cover used for the paths.....but time and the weather scuppered this. It'll have to be a job for the New Year

I have managed to plant garlic (Lautrec Wight) and Onion sets (red and white) which seem to have taken well.......unless the birds and the weather have had them in the last couple of weeks!


Missing the fresh air, exercise and chat......roll on Spring and finer weather.