March 2024

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

01 - 03 March

Trimmed dead leaves on one strawberry bed
Cut back black elders
Tidied beds ready for first planting
Harvested parsnips and leeks

More of the same

Video
A walk in the rain at Nostell
An afternoon at the allotment

04 - 17 March

Swans have started to build their nest at Nostell
First hippeastrum flowers have opened
More tidying in the garden and cutting back more climbing rose
March 2024 Weather
Land of Gloom
Nature into spring mode
Videus
Walled garden at Temple Newsam

11 - 17 March

Trimmed gooseberries
First plum blossom opening
Native primroses flowering
Picked first bunch of daffodils
Cleared main parsnip bed
Pussy willow flowering
First rhododendron at Temple Newsam
Indoor Plant Recovery Centre
Give me sunshine
Videos
Ruby’s Lakeside walk
Raspberry bed refurbish and trimming gooseberries

18 - 24 March

More work on raspberry and strawberry beds.
Last of the parsnips dug
Had bonfire
Tidied blackberry area and tied new canes onto new supports
Netted the cherry tree
Swans os the nest at Nostell
Crows gathering nesting material
Are we behind or not at the allotment?
A battle between the wind and the sun

Videos
Raspberry bed dug and strawberries tidied
Nostell birds nesting