I do enjoy the onset of winter. I love the seasonal change, the cosy evenings in front of the wood burner, and the chance to put my feet up and forget the allotment for a while. You might not want to rest for too long though, as there is still plenty to do (when is …
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Brrrr, it’s cold out there. Minus 3 in fact, according to my car. We’ve had snow. Not much, but enough for a lunchtime snowball fight on the way into town. I was rather chilly, even in my quilt like puffa jacket, so those veg still shining on the plot must, quite literally, be freezing. How …
Back in 2010, I successfully grew a cauliflower. It had taken three seasons, but I’d finally broken the cauli hoodoo with a 4lb corker. Overjoyed, I was sure that I’d mastered this notoriously fickle vegetable. However, 2011 came and went with a cauliflower blank, and checking my plants recently, it looked like 2012 would go …
