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Monday, 13 February 2023
Experimental red onions
We’ve always had trouble growing red onions. We had always grown our onions from sets and red sets had never performed as well as the brown ones. They’d be grown alongside one another and given the same treatment so we could never decide exactly what we were doing wrong. When we harvested our usual poor crop of red onions in 2020 we decided we’d had enough of trying to grow reds and we’d stick to the brown varieties in 2021.
Monday, 6 February 2023
The new season begins
Since the middle of January, we’ve had very little rain so both the garden at home and the allotment have started to dry out enough to consider doing a little bit of early gardening.
Monday, 30 January 2023
Two Methods of protecting carrots
We’re almost to the end of January and, unless something unusual occurs during the last few days of the month weatherwise, it will be a fairly average January both in terms of temperature and rainfall.
A couple of years ago now we changed our method of storing carrots over winter. Our usual procedure for storing root crops in general over winter was to cover them with straw.
Sunday, 22 January 2023
Our coldest day of the year – Hopefully
This is how far I’d got at writing Sunday’s blog post on Saturday afternoon.
I’m hoping that Saturday, 21 January will turn out to be the coldest day of the year. At 08:40 on Saturday morning, the temperature had fallen to -4.8°C (23.4°F), the lowest temperature this year and slightly lower than anything we had last year.
It doesn’t quite make it into the list of top twenty coldest days as -4.9°C is required to get into equal twentieth position. The morning began as though it was going to be a cold crisp winter’s day but by mid-morning, some thick mist or fog had descended and it didn’t lift all day. The day’s high temperature was 0.0°C or 32.0°F in the middle of the afternoon.
Monday, 16 January 2023
A soggy allotment visit
It’s been a wet start to the year. In a bit of a break in the weather on Saturday afternoon we risked a visit to the allotment to harvest some vegetables. Sue covered our visit in her blog post here. At the risk of spending more time at the allotment than we really wanted we made our first allotment video of the year.
Sunday, 8 January 2023
Lazy start to the new gardening year
The weather at the start of the new year had been on the miserable side. Rather than any nice, cold, crisp, sunny days, all we get is showers or longer spells of rain as one rain band after another comes in from the Atlantic Ocean. The upside is that the weather is on the mild side so at least the central heating costs are less than in that spell of cold weather in December.
Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Coldest spell since 2010
Our cold spell has come to a very abrupt end. It’s been the coldest spell of weather since December 2010. That spell in December 2010 was the beginning of the coldest winter in 100 years. To be honest the cold temperatures back in that December were colder than we’ve experienced so far this month.
Monday, 12 December 2022
Coldest day of the year
Sunday, 11 December 2022 became our coldest day of the year as the temperature dropped to -4.8°C or 23.4°F. Rather strangely this temperature occurred just before midnight on Sunday after which the temperature lifted slightly.
However, as daylight broke the temperature remained below -3.0°C (26.6°F) and it’s struggling to get much warmer.
However, as daylight broke the temperature remained below -3.0°C (26.6°F) and it’s struggling to get much warmer.
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