Friday, 30 January 2009

The BIG CHILL continues.

We're promised another week of cold weather and snow for Monday and Tuesday! We really have had a 'proper' winter this year. Hopefully it'll kill off some of the nasty bugs we gardeners don't need - like SLUGS and SNAILS, the most loathed of all garden pests.

This time last year I was well prepared for the coming season putting glass frames over raised beds to warm up the soil and, in fact, I sowed my first batch of rocket seeds outdoors under a glass sheet in the first week of Feb! Not much chance of that this year.

Such is the effect of the weather I haven't even ventured into a garden centre yet this year, I'm normally to be seen drooling over the seed displays and buying pots and compost for early sowings. Oh well! Plenty of time eh?

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