January 2023
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 08 January
First visit of the year to Nostell
Martyn’s birthday
Ruby’s birthday
A two birthday week
Lazy start to the new gardening year
Nostell videos
09 - 15 January
Very cold
Visited the allotment to harvest some vegetables.
Early rhubarb is shooting
Winter jasmine is flowering
A soggy allotment visit
First allotment visit of 2023
Plot video
16 - 22 January
Very very cold, frosty and foggy
Visited Nostell and fed the water birds
Bought seed potatoes, dahlia tubers and gladdioli bulbs
Main seed order received
Stocking up
Our coldest day of the year – Hopefully
Videos of garden and Nostell
23 - 31 January
Usual walks but cold and windy
Visited the allotment
Hoed and weeded some beds
Removed the hoops from harvested beds
Weeded and hoed strawberrues, onions and sweet Williams
Cut back apple hedge
Cut down elder growing on the boundary
A bit of housekeeping on the plot
Two Methods of protecting carrots