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February 2019
Details of what was sown/planted in February
For February 2019 weather summary
Details of our February harvest
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 10 February
Just a sprinkling of snow
More tidying on the allotment
Planted snowdrops and English bluebells in pots
Planted garlic in a large pot
Gale force winds
Bulbs shooting
Snowdrops opening
Planting garlic, snowdrops and English bluebells - video
Digging green manure, weeding and harvesting
February starts with a dusting of snow
Killing off weed roots - video
11 - 17 February
Coppiced one of the hazel bushes
Dug in green manure
More tidying of fruit and perennial beds
Visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Tidied front garden bed
More soil preparation in the garden under crab apple
First daffodil and iris Katherine Hodgkin flowering
Daphne budding
Bird's eye view of the allotment - mid February
18 - 24 February
Visit to RHS Harlow Carr
Pruned autumn raspberries
Weeded pear bed
More digging over newly cleared beds
Set potatoes to chit
Burned pile of weed roots and other non compostable debris
\pruned rose near compost bin
Limed early brassica bed
Emptied last year's grow nags onto new strawberry patch
Tidied greenhouse on plot
First peach flowers and camellia flowers have opened
First cut of the lawn
Started tidying the harden greenhouse
Raspberries on the allotment - video
25 - 28 February
Continued tidying on the allotments
Some beds rotovated
Cobnuts are flowering
Created a new path to one side of the apple hedge
Trimmed the lavender with shears
New strawberries and raspberries arrived and have been potted
Blackthorn flowering
Peach flowering so I have been pollinating
Blackbird's starting to gather nesting materials
Plot Tour February 2019 - video
A wander around our garden February - video