Happy New Year

Christmas has now been and gone and we are now all waiting to see what the New Year will bring.

It's been a very soggy Christmas with almost wall-to-wall rain and strong winds. 

We didn't manage to get to the allotment but fortunately, we had enough vegetables stored at home to fulfill our needs. We are hoping that the allotment hasn't been battered too badly by the constant storms.

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Merry Christmas

We had a very different walk with Ruby last week. A street near where my sister lives goes to town on Christmas lights. The display is in aid of local charities. We decided to take, Ruby along for an evening's walk.

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Cascades

We made one visit to the allotment last week. 

We needed some fresh parsnips and leeks and found a couple of tiny cabbages. A video is posted here.

We were really pleased with the parsnips. You may remember that we started the parsnips on damp kitchen roll and 'sowed' the seeds once the tiny roots had sprouted, Some of the roots grew longer than we would have liked before we could get them in the ground, so we were concerned that they would develop multiple roots. This doesn't appear to have happened as all the roots lifted last week had just the single tap root. For some reason, the row along the edge of the bed seemed to suffer from canker. Other than being sown earlier and the position of the row there had been no difference in how they have been treated. It will be interesting to see whether the parsnips growing along the other edge of the bed are similarly affected.

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Contrasting weather

Last week, we had everything that the weather gods could find to throw at us, except warmth. Most days were wet and miserable days when it hardly managed to get light. On other days, we had bright sunshine and a little snow which froze and was crunchy underfoot. Then at the weekend, we had persistent rain and strong winds.

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November in pictures

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Wintry

There were no visits to the allotment last week and it wasn't all due to the weather.

Monday we all - Martyn, my sister, and I - had a visit from our hairdresser. At this point, I was already feeling snuffly and below par. Then on Tuesday, the sniffles developed into the worst cold that I can remember having for years. The unheard of happened and I spent most of the day in bed.

Wednesday, I was up and about again but couldn't stray far from my box of tissues.

Thursday I was still wedded to the box of tissues, on top of which the weather had turned cold and we had a sprinkling of snow. Martyn popped out and took a few photos for me.

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