Happy New Year

That's Christmas over and done with for another year. We had a quiet Christmas just the two of us and  my sister - not forgetting Ruby of course.

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Christmas harvest

We made the obligatory trip to the allotment to harvest some vegetables to have with our Christmas dinner.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

It's been cold, cold, cold

There's not much to say about this week, other than it has been cold - very cold.

Needless to say, we have not been to the allotment. Even if we had fancied a trip - which we didn't - the ground would have been too hard to even just dig up some leeks. Fortunately, last week,  we replenished our stock at home.

We did manage some afternoon walks once the temperatures had lifted at least enough for little paws not to be frozen.

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Brr ;;;It's cold out there

With a freezing weather forecast for the latter part of the week, we decided that we had better lift the dahlias and put them into winter storage. With this in mind, we headed to the allotment on Tuesday afternoon.

The tops of the dahlias had already been frosted so I cut back what was left of the foliage whilst, Martyn lifted the tubers. They were then taken to the greenhouse where they were covered with some old hessian potato sacks and a pile of enviromesh. We filmed the process and the video is posted here

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Winter is coming

Meteorologically speaking, winter's already upon us.  Astronomically winter begins at the winter equinox on 21 December. Whichever definition you prefer, as far as our weather is concerned, winter is definitely staking its claim and the weather is becoming colder and we are more inclined to stay indoors.

We had intended to pop to the allotment on Sunday to harvest some fresh vegetables but in the event, it was wet all day so we changed our plans meaning that last week was another plotless week.

We paid our usual visit to Nostell. Ruby needs her exercise and so we can't just stay indoors being lazy, We have to wrap up warmly and set off for a walk. It was very quiet last week. As the temperatures drop people without a dog to drag them out tend to stay at home or find somewhere indoors to visit.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett