Snow, what snow!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto the lottie, the snow comes down.  It’s up to the Saint’s now.

“Fifty Shed’s Of Grey”

When the weather starts getting you down and you long for the days when the sun is on you at the allotment, along comes a book that cheers you up.  Fifty Sheds Of Grey, written by C T Grey is about Erotica for the not-too modern male.  Here are just a few entries in the book.  If you get a chance to read this, hide it from her indoors, as she may mistake it for that other book, you know, that one and get funny idea’s.

“I emptied the small water-butt for the fifteenth time that day and collapsed, exhausted, into my shed.  I like big butts and I cannot lie.”

“It was damp, uncomfortable and didn’t last very long but it’s true what they say – you never forget your first shed.”

“She knelt before me on the shed floor and tugged gently at first, then harder until finally it came.  I moaned with pleasure.  Now for  the other boot…”

Too cold

The weather is still a bit iffy and will probably wait to the end of the month to put my spuds in.  My Kale and Leeks have now started to sprout, I just hope I am not too early as deep frosts my kill the shoots, even in the poly greenhouse.  They seem ok, so if they can survive these next couple of weeks then I am sure they will be strong enough to be transplanted into their permanent beds.

Kale

Now sown my Kale and put them into the poly greenhouse.  They should be ready to transplant within 6 – 8 weeks.  The weather is still a bit dodgy and the forecast is rainy for the next week or so.  Parsnips, Calabrese and Carrots still need to be sown by the end of the month.

Is Spring just around the corner ?

Weather  forecast for the Anglian region tomorrow is 12c that’s roughly 54f.  So lets hope that Spring will be truly Spung within the next couple of weeks.  Bulbs are starting to shoot in the garden, buds on plants.  Lets keep our fingers crossed hey.

Sowing and digging!

I have now sown my leeks in modules and have put them in a propagator in my poly greenhouse.  Two types this year.  Musselburgh and Autumn Giant.  Today I also went onto the lottie to dig my bean bed and incorporated four bags of well rotted  manure with a covering of about 4″ of topsoil.  This should be well mixed when I come to put my French Bean plants in, come the middle of May.