February 2016

 

 

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This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.

 

 

 

 

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Aucuba berries are starting to turn red

They earn their keep - soft fruit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First crocus flowers

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Allium bulbs are pushing through

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spent a very wet and misty day in Cumbria and Wensleydale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Miniature daffodil buds - tete a tete - are continuing to open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reviews of fruit crops

Earning their keep - berries

Top Fruit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Planted plants bought last month -

first real chance that we had.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rest of the potatoes set to chit with sheets of fleece on standby when frost is forecast.

Chitting the rest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First lot of potatoes set to chit in the greenhouse

.A bit of advanced planning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The apricot in the garden greenhouse has flower buds.

Beginning to garden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not just load of rhubarb - review of rhubarb. grapes and figs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Visited plot to harvest some vegetables and also pruned the tayberry and gave fruit trees a winter wash.

A typical winter harvest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The potted hyacinth is perfuming the bathroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bags of beans -review of last seasons bean harvest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After what seems to be a long absence we had a goldfinch on the feeders today. More cutting back of perennials to reveal spring bulbs.

Goldies back

A tale of two baths  - birds bathing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bought a miniature rose pot plant at a local nursery. Bulbs beginning to open in the front garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Signs of spring on the plot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bulbs beginning to open in the back garden

Late snowdrops

Chitters spared - potatoes chitting

 

 

 

One of our orchids is flowering again after a few months rest

Not always easy peasy - review of last years pea growing

Distractions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Visit to RHS Harlow Carr - very soggy. It looked as though the stream bank had collapsed.

RHS Harlow Carr

Harlow Carr photo album

Harlow Carr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The border under the magnolia tree is looking at its best.

View from the windows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Busy pollinating the apricot daily

Apricot flowers - time to make like a bee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tidied and sorted out the garden greenhouse and some perennial borders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First spring lambs

Something old and something new

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spring flowers

Seeing red and yellow - review of last year's tomato crop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cyclamen coum has been flowering for ages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Apricot blossom still opening and I am still pollinating

Trust winter to start now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In the greenhouse the potatoes are chitting and the salad leaves are just about ready to harvest.

Ordinary and exotic - review of last year's peppers, aubergines and salad crops.

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