Monday, February 24

An afternoon at the plot

Last week's weather, for the most part, was awful. We had strong winds and rain that varied from light drizzly showers - the sort that wets you before you notice it is happening to more persistent lasting all day. Nostell was shut for one day and the garden at Temple Newsam was closed due to the danger posed by the greenhouse. Nostell has been closed several times this year. It seems places have become more risk evasive. We still managed to fit in Ruby's walks. Despite lots of ears flapping she managed to keep all four paws on the ground. Parking charges have been introduced at Temple Newsam. I don't know if it was the weather or the charges, but visitor numbers were down even though it was the school half-term.

There was a break in the awful weather on Saturday so we had an afternoon at the allotment - our first real visit of 2025. 



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Sunday, February 16

Another slow week

I didn't publish a post last week as to be honest I had nothing of interest to write about. To be frank the same could be said for this week.

We have lots of tidying up to do in the garden but it has been too cold or too wet or too wet AND cold to tempt us outdoors other than to take Ruby for a walk. Ruby doesn't mind getting wet when going for a walk or playing chase but flatly refuses to pop out in the rain to fulfill toileting requirements.

Our walking venues were very quiet with most walkers having a canine companion.

For want of anything better to write about, I decided to have a walk around the garden.



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Monday, February 3

Onions and potatoes


The only gardening-related activity last week was a visit to a local garden centre to buy our seed potatoes and onion sets.

As well as offering seed potatoes in the usual bags, there are also individual potatoes on sale which is ideal for those who wish just to plant one or two tubers in pots or, like us, want to try something different.

We bought five tubers each of Elland and Francis. Francis is an early variety and  Elland is an early maincrop. We also bought bags of two varieties that are new to us, Skywalker - a second early and Kingsman - a maincrop. Three other varieties Orla - second early, Sagitta - maincrop and Ulster Prince - first Early are all varieties that we have successfully grown before. We will also replant some of the potatoes that we grew last year.






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