Who would have thought less than a month ago, we were out on the plot in short sleeves, sweating away, and now I won't go out cos it's too cold! Ok, I plodded along earlier this week to show my dad what was around, but it was hard to tell as there were 6-8" of snow on top of most of it!
Was excited to see that the tomato seedlings are popping through, planted 2 weeks ago and put on the sunny window sill. Nothing coming through yet from the peppers sown at the same time, nor the leeks and sprouts that were left in the chilly greenhouse (as instructed!)
6 modules of 5-seeds-each of Gardeners Delight starting to poke out their seedy little heads. Or more accurately, 4 modules of 5 seeds, 1 module of nothing, and one module of 10. Oops.
Over on the allotment, the brassicas are still looking mostly ok, but the romanesco cauli, which were just starting to form teeny tiny heads, look like they've been frost-damaged. :-( I should have elastic-banded them shut when I realised it was going to snow, I guess. Calabrese is still looking good, though.
Potatoes are all hanging under the spare bed in hanging baskets, chitting away. Only a couple of weeks until the first earlies need to go in. Maybe we'll hold on until March if it doesn't warm up. Picked up an extra bag of Annabel potatoes for 2 pound (for about 20) in Van Hague last week, and they're looking very happy.
Need to get on with planting some more seeds. We always leave peppers and aubergines till too late, as they have a very long growing season. I meant to put aubergines in in Jan! Need to get them in and onto the windowsill asap. If only it wasn't so freezing out there ... !