Archive for November, 2010
Frosty cabbage
It looks like winter has well and truly arrived. We measured -10°C in the polytunnel on Saturday night/Sunday morning and similarly temperatures last night. As I write the mercury is reading around -5°C. However, the sun is shining and everything is sparkling so while it may be cold at least it’s not snowing (yet!). Read the rest of this entry »
Preparing for next year
Things are definitely quietening down in the garden at the moment, although there always seems to be something to do. We’ve got quite a large pile of compost that has been rotting down over the summer, and to allow the worms to start incorporating it into the soil over winter, I thought I would spread it on the garden. We’ve still got an unused area of our new vegetable garden that has been under black plastic for nearly two years. I want to use this for potatoes next year, so a good dose of compost will help those along the way.
I was slightly wary of pulling pack the black plastic, because when we pulled some of it back in the summer we found a large grass snake underneath. I know they’re not poisonous, but it’s still a bit scary being confronted with a snake. Luckily all I saw this time was a bit of its shed skin and a small mouse that ran out and under the shed… mice I can cope with! Read the rest of this entry »