A battle between the wind and the sun

Our weather continues to set us a challenge. We have had glimpses of brightness but these are usually accompanied by strong, bitterly cold winds. It's reminiscent of the Aesop's fable which tells the argument between the wind and the sun. As far as we are concerned the wind is winning,

At the allotment, we had an increasingly huge pile of debris that was due to be burned in November, The wet weather put paid to that plan and the pile continued to grow. Last week after a couple of dryish days and the threat that more wet weather was forecast, we decided to try to have a fire. 

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Give me sunshine

Last week, we did have some sunshine but, most days, it tended to be in the morning and by the afternoon it had clouded over and sometimes given way to drizzle or rain. It was also quite cold.

We still managed our weekly long walks with Ruby and, at the weekend, we had a couple of afternoons at the allotment. We continued tidying which didn't provide many photo opportunities. All the grass paths were strimmed and are looking much neater.

We have a couple of gooseberry plants which are trained onto a support. I spent one afternoon trimming them. I know that I haven't pruned them correctly but this doesn't seem to affect fruiting and that is what really matters.

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February in Pictures

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Sorry, I forgot to post this last week!

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

Nature into spring mode

We had glimpses of better weather last week but also had days that were predominantly gloomy and drizzly.

The number of bright, dry days needs to increase if our soil is going to be fit for working. Maybe I'll look back on this time in summer when we are lugging watering cans or maybe we will still be waiting for things to dry out. Who knows what our weather will bring? Weather forecasts seem to change by the hour so it is difficult to make any definite plans.

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More of the same

We have tiptoed into meteological spring but nothing has changed as far as the weather is concerned. It's still very wet and at times also very cold.

See Martyn's blog for more details on the weather

Two afternoons saw us venturing to the allotment. On the first afternoon, the work that was more or less the same as on our previous visit. Martyn emptied another compost bay

I concentrated on a raspberry bed. This bed was planted a few years ago. We planted several varieties but only two grew to produce a berry harvest. The row is planted through weed control fabric but we are going to remove the strip along the front so that we can improve the soil. The canes that I dug up the week before will be planted here and we will probably plant some annual flowers - maybe calendula - along the front.

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