GARDENING BLOG
Week one - January 1st to January 7th
2005
January 2nd 2005
Planting out shallots, pruning and general clearing up are the tasks for this time of the year, although today I was still feeding the Japanese onion sets and the spring greens liquid feed. I planted a few more shallots, hoed under the red gooseberry bushes and got the loppers on what are now last years fruited blackberry canes.
The First Aconites are in flower already in the old Apiary and one of my main jobs at the beginning of this year will digging them up and moving them to the allotment along with the snowdrops and daffodils.
2004
Saturday 3rd january Thieves in the cabbage patch
If something similar hadn't’t happened before I wouldn't believe it – all of my January king cabbages have been stolen from their prime position under the apple tree near the water butt. I grew them there as the water butt has a tap with it and it was convenient for watering them during the long hot summer. Unfortunately this strategy has failed me because they were too easy to see and almost shouted out “steal me” as they grew plumper whilst everything else around them died down.
The stealing of cabbages is the reason why the whole of one side of my plot, that has the track way running along side it, is now screened, with large, thick and thorny blackberries planted there for the very purpose of keeping people out.
Although
we are in a general period of rain, Saturday afternoon was a dry spell
a touch frosty. However it wasn't so bad that some rough digging
couldn’t be accomplished. Particularly where the ground had
been left unused last year and was overgrown with grass and my own ‘green
manure’ Verbascum.
2000
The New Year, 2,000 began on a Saturday and as it is the time for New Year resolutions a completed gardening diary is one of them. Last years attempt was going quite well until Melissa arrived and upset the flow. For me the year is not starting too well as Saturday the 1st finds me suffering from a cold and the allotment is unattended for the first weekend of the year.
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