February 2024
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 04 February
Bought seed potatoes, onion and shallot sets and garlic
Built fence
First snowdrops are flowering
Tiidied front garden bed
Welcome drops of snow
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February 2024 Video
05 - 11 February
A little snow and more rain
Camellia starting to flower
Mahonia flowering
Iris reticulata flowering
Alliums shooting in greenhouse
Repotted hippeastrumHarvested some leeks and parsnips
Rhubarb beginning to shoot
A light covering
I’m back with some weather stuff
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Snowing at lunchtime
Park Ruby’s walk after the snow
Storing carrots and beetroot
12 - 18 February
Garden tub bulbs flowering
Daffodils and crocuses out
First seeds sown – onion and shallots
Wigeons at Nostell
Started emptying compost bins
Pruned summer raspberries
Trimmed and cut back jostaberries
Trimmed lavender
Pruned allotment roses
Will it ever be dry again?
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Sorting compost heap
More work on compost
Rubys walk and shower
19 - 29 February
Thinned second raspberry bed and dug out some canes for planting elsewhere
Started sorting the long raspberry bed
Martyn emptied the second compost bay and spread the resulting compost
Harvested parsnips
Pear trees in bud
Laid out seed potatoes in the greenhouse to chit
Tidied perennials in the garden
Pruned climbing roses.
Blackthorn and cherry plum on flower
Swapping Rain for Frost
Webbed feet anyone?