January 2022
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 09 January
Visited Nostell – video 1 and video 2
Paid a short visit to the allotment
Started cutting back laurel
Bought two new houseplants – calathea and maidenhair fern
Potted up Sugana raspberries from T&M Video
When you can’t garden
A cold and frosty morning
Coldest day of the year
Warmest January day
2021 weather summary
10 - 16 January
Some frosty and misty mornings
Paid our regular visit to Nostell
Pacific volcanic effects recorded in Wakefield
A very mixed week
Still using last summer’s Nadine potatoes – video
17 - 23 January
Frosty morning coming home from my biopsy
Visit to Nostell and Fountains Abbey – Video
Pheasant in our garden
Dug more parsnips
Lifted more leeks for freezing. They had lots of allium miner damage
Cut back laurel hedge on allotment
Tidied under the greengage trees.
Mahonia and winter jasmine on flower and hellebores in bud.
A busy week
January so far – Tonga wave two
24 - 31 January
Martyn had the operation on his nose
Snowdrops, hellebores and sarcococca flowering
Pheasant in the garden
Kings seed order arrived
Gales for two days
What a week