A cold, snowy windy day mid March
Posted 03-21-2008 at 10:26 AM by Daffodil Girl
Well, the weather was forcast to be driving snow, high winds and showery with rain and hail stones.
For us on our allotment site it is tradition to plant the first earlies of the potato's at Easter Weekend, althought I have had my allocated potato beds covered and snug for the winter I think it is 2 weeks too early to be planting and also far too cold especially with heavy frosts anticipated, so my Arran Pilot variety can wait !!
I popped in to my little patch of heaven anyway to check on my onion sets that I am bringing on in little cells ready to plant out in a fortnight, they are doing just fine.
My greenhouse is not heated but it has a good layer of bubblewrap keeping the frosts at bay, I have also put up a smaller mini greenhouse inside it, this is to give early sowings of various vegetable seeds that extra bit of warmth - I shall post my results once germination happens!!


For us on our allotment site it is tradition to plant the first earlies of the potato's at Easter Weekend, althought I have had my allocated potato beds covered and snug for the winter I think it is 2 weeks too early to be planting and also far too cold especially with heavy frosts anticipated, so my Arran Pilot variety can wait !!
I popped in to my little patch of heaven anyway to check on my onion sets that I am bringing on in little cells ready to plant out in a fortnight, they are doing just fine.
My greenhouse is not heated but it has a good layer of bubblewrap keeping the frosts at bay, I have also put up a smaller mini greenhouse inside it, this is to give early sowings of various vegetable seeds that extra bit of warmth - I shall post my results once germination happens!!


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Not to rub it in, but it was 80 degrees here today -- really felt like summer, and we had good rains this year so everything is green and the flowers are blooming.
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Posted 03-23-2008 at 10:39 PM by smgardener
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