February 2019

 

 

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February seed sowing schedule

Details of what was sown/planted in February

 

 

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February harvesting schedule

Details of our February harvest

 

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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 and harvesting

Planting garlic, snowdrops and English bluebells - video

Digging green manure, weeding and harvesting

February starts with a dusting of snow

Coldest night of the year

Wettest day of the year

Storm Erik

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

Promise of spring

Working in sunshine

Spring here?

Coppicing hazel - video

Bird's eye view of the allotment - mid February

Tidying fruit beds - video

Pruning buddleia - video

 

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

Harlow Carr

Enforced chitting

Record breaking February

Just makes it

New record for February

Raspberries on the allotment - video

Chitting potatoes - 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

Catkins

Another February record

A promise of things to come

Plot Tour February 2019 - video

A wander around our garden February - video

 

 

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