Well things are starting to move at last, well time is anyway.
The days are getting longer and spring is on it's inevitable way. Hooray !
The hens have started to grace us with eggs again 4 hens and 4 eggs today, so the talking to must have worked.
Made my first sowing of the year a day or two back, 3 small rows of nantes early carrots and a row of mixed salad leaves.All in the bed of the unheated greenhouse.
I've bought in my seed potato's and have started to chit them probably a little early, but stocks sell fast at our allotment shop. So I thought I'd get in quick and have bought the following:
3kg of Rocket 1st earlies.
3kg of Nadine 2nd earlies
9kg of Romano main crop
9kg of Cara main crop
So I've probably got about 240 ish tubers to plant come the spring.
Chitting is optional some say you get better results, others say you don't.
Personally I chit
The best way to do this is keep them in a light, but cool place and they should produce short stocky chits in about 6 or so weeks.
I like to do mine in them blue plastic crates you can get from the green grocers, quite often you can get them for free if you ask nice.
I've also put in 3 rows of Raspberry canes over the winter, not much to see as they look like rows of sticks at the minute, I also got some raspberry roots off a friend of mine on the allotment forums, there in pots waiting for the spring.
Tips for January and February finish the winter digging if you can and tidy up
I may even take my own advice !
The days are getting longer and spring is on it's inevitable way. Hooray !
The hens have started to grace us with eggs again 4 hens and 4 eggs today, so the talking to must have worked.
Made my first sowing of the year a day or two back, 3 small rows of nantes early carrots and a row of mixed salad leaves.All in the bed of the unheated greenhouse.
I've bought in my seed potato's and have started to chit them probably a little early, but stocks sell fast at our allotment shop. So I thought I'd get in quick and have bought the following:
3kg of Rocket 1st earlies.
3kg of Nadine 2nd earlies
9kg of Romano main crop
9kg of Cara main crop
So I've probably got about 240 ish tubers to plant come the spring.
Chitting is optional some say you get better results, others say you don't.
Personally I chit
The best way to do this is keep them in a light, but cool place and they should produce short stocky chits in about 6 or so weeks.
I like to do mine in them blue plastic crates you can get from the green grocers, quite often you can get them for free if you ask nice.
I've also put in 3 rows of Raspberry canes over the winter, not much to see as they look like rows of sticks at the minute, I also got some raspberry roots off a friend of mine on the allotment forums, there in pots waiting for the spring.
Tips for January and February finish the winter digging if you can and tidy up
I may even take my own advice !
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