It might still feel like winter outside but the planting season is with us again.
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| Garlic looking good. |
The garlic and onions were planted before Christmas in the tunnel and are doing well,
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| Broad beans in the tunnel. |
the broad bean seeds were planted in modules last month, they have grown well and have now been planted, some in the tunnel and the rest outside, we have found that overwintering broad beans gives us no advantage, they don't crop any better or earlier than seeds planted in January. This weekend spinach and leek seeds will be sown in modules, parsnips will be sown directly into the ground the end of next week. We are following the advice given in the 'Planting by the Moon' book, it will be interesting to see if it does make much difference. We have also planted a dozen 'Charlotte' seed potatoes in one of the beds in the tunnel, hopefully they will give us an early crop of new potatoes.
There are all sorts of things coming into flower in the garden, Tete- a-Tete,
dwarf daffodils, plus the larger daffs, so very early this year,
todays surprise were the Anemone Blanda, I had quite forgotten that I had planted them,
and at last the snowdrops are out. The tulips are up three inches so it wont be long before they start flowering.
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| Early primroses. |
There are even primroses out in the countryside banks.
The weather really has been so mild, I just wish it would stop raining.
We even had a bumble bee visiting earlier this week, sunning itself on one of the rare sunny days that we have.
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| Three of the seven rabbit kits. |
The rabbit kits that were born just before Christmas have all grown well and today were removed from mum into their own quarters, we haven't sexed them yet, hopefully we will find time next week to do this.
It will soon be time to get our table birds ordered, possible the end of next month, depending on the weather, we will also be buying in day old ducklings rather than rearing our own, cost wise it makes very little difference.
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| I still need to tidy it up a bit. |
I don't seem to have done much this winter, I knitted one jumper and have made a couple of baskets,
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| Freddy helping me on the second basket. |
plus I made a couple of papier-mâché bowls, it was something I never did as a kid for some reason, it's quite fun and relaxing. I think I have actually gone into a semi hibernation state, waking up to grey skies is not exactly inspiring. Real spring will happen, I just wish it would hurry up.
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| View to the Arigna mountains. |
