Monday, February 27

Looks like spring - feels like winter


We did go to the allotment last week but I didn’t take any photos. I had intended taking a photo when we revisited the plot later in the week but we never had a return visit.

I cut down the old growth of the autumn raspberries and started tidying the bed so I was going to take a photo when I had finished hopefully that will be sometime this week.

Martyn, had another fire so managed to clear most of the debris from cutting back bushes. The laurels were cut back last year and the ‘prunings’ had been piled up for a year so were very dry and burned quite quickly.

We had a couple of walks around a local park where there were carpets of crocuses. The roadside was edged with yellow crocuses which surprisingly were untouched by birds.+



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

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2 comments:

  1. MalFebruary 27, 2023

    Crocus in your compost is better than Spanish bluebells or Jerusalem artichoke.
    I can't help wondering if we are supposed to be eating English turnips or Swedish turnips. ( Scots definitely favour Swedes - although they are called 'neeps')

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    1. Sue GarrettFebruary 28, 2023

      We have had Spanish bluebells too , Mal. I wondered which turnips she meant - maybe doesn't know that the Scots refer to turnips differently, She also wasn't too good at judging seasonality!

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