Snowdrops and daffodils about to burst into flower out in the shady front garden. I like to think they see it as the next best thing to woodland! Out front also the rhubarb and comfrey have awoken and the new greenery bodes well for another productive year. Out in the back garden, the garlic cloves [...]
Posts Tagged ‘February’
27 Feb
FROZEN GROUND MEANS ONLY CULTIVATION POSSIBLE IN GARDEN IS UNDER GLASS – THIRD WEEK IN FEBRUARY 2010
Only a garden with a greenhouse or at least south facing windows can make any decent headway in seed propogation right now. With strong daytime sunshine, the growing spaces under glass (or plastic) dry out surprisingly quickly. It seems strange to be out watering when the weather is so cold. My ‘telephone box’ sized greenhouse [...]
22 Feb
HARD FROSTS AT NIGHT PARALYSE GARDEN BUT HARDY LAMB’S LETTUCE YIELDS UP FRESH SALAD SANDWICH INGREDIENT – FOURTH WEEK IN FEBRUARY 2010
The temperature by day is touching double figures but the frosts at night keep soil temperature too cold for much growth. It is impressive, therefore, to see a heritage variety of lettuce which I obtained some years ago from Irish Seed Savers in Scariff, Co. Clare, growing on bare patches around the garden, front and [...]
10 Feb
FIRST SOWING OF SEEDS INDOORS – SECOND WEEK IN FEBRUARY 2010
No doubt I’ll be told that early February is too early for sowing seed with temperatures still low and flurries of snow here and there. I realise I’m taking a calculated risk but the seed packets in question do say to sow from February onwards. However, February 2009 was a little warmer than February 2010 [...]
9 Feb
STARTING EARLY POTATOES IN EGG BOXES! – FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY 2010
The world of domesticated potato growing is a venerable one, going back some 9000 years to the shores of Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia. This ‘super food’ (it has pretty much got every nutrient you need keep healthy) has since become the fourth most important food crop in the world. The [...]
16 Feb
Propogating Everlasting Cabbage
16 February 2009 The cabbage variety I grow each year is particularly well suited to a small garden. I got it first from I.S.S.A. (Irish Seed Savers Association) in Scariff, Co. CLare. It is a perennial bush, but I don’t leave it for more than a year in one spot to prevent any diseases such [...]
16 Feb
February, 2nd. Week- Pruning fruit trees & Blackcurrant bushes
Second week in February Pruning the Apple Tree My fruit trees and blackcurrant bushes especially need to be pruned in the New Year before the sap rises and buds open. The garden is too small to allow the apple tree, in particular, to grow as large as it would in the wild. A long-armed loper [...]
4 Feb
Planting Radishes
2 February 2009 Weather: today was bitterly cold with a chilling north-easterly wind bringing sleet and snow. Today Trevor plants some radish seeds in a planter. Radishes are easy to grow and provide a delicious early vegetable. By planting several containers a week apart, Trevor makes sure to have a ready supply of fresh radishes [...]
