January 2021
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 10 January
Had a sprinkling of snow
Ruby’s first birthday
Visited Nostell Priory
Plot visit to harvest cabbage, sprouts, leeks and parsnips
Crops suffering from being permanently cold and wet.
A cold start to the new year
A week for staying indoors
A double birthday week
A major sudden stratospheric warming has occured
Ruby’s first birthday
11 - 17
January
We had snow
Ordered and received seed potatoes
A Bleak Midwinter Snowed
Wettest day of the month with almost no rain
Snowed Under
18 - 24 January
Wet and windy week – no gardening or plot visits
Bulbs in the garden are shooting
Sarcococca and hellebores beginning to flower
Cold to wet and mild and back to cold
Another non-gardening week
25
- 31 January
Bought dahlia tubers
Bought onion and shallot sets
Visited the allotment to harvest some vegetables
Ground very muddy
Froze leeks and parsnips
Ruby was groomed
Took part in RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
Wettest January in 12 years
Not so glorious mud
Harvesting in the mud – Part 1 Parsnips – video
Harvesting in the mud part 2 -leeks – Video
