Our New Life in the Country: Itching to get started.....

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Itching to get started.....

I'm itching to get started on the planting. But with more frosts forecast over the next few weeks, I know I shouldn't.

It's just that time of year, slight promises of better days with the sun giving us the odd peep from between the grey clouds, and if you stand in just the right sheltered spot you can feel warmth of her rays. If you stand the thermometer in the right place in the polytunnel the mercury shoots up, but then plummets disappointingly as the sun vanishes behind a cloud.

The seed packets have been sorted through and the polytunnel tidied, the wind up radio has been tried out and works a treat.........I'm raring to go.

But I think I should do as Archie does......and sit on the fence just a little bit longer.

Sue xx

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Jane and Chris2 January 2011 at 22:29
I forget just how very different our climates are!
We won't be planting for many months yet, although we have garlic sleeping under the snow.
Jane x
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foreveryoung2 January 2011 at 22:34
Our garden will take ages to be ready for any kind of plantings yet. Still loads of leaves left from autumn, but you are giving me ideas, to get on with clearing up the mess! Ann x
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BadPenny3 January 2011 at 10:09
Just a few leeks left in my raised beds & FiL made a lovely soup from some & the Turkey stock. One of the cats or nextdoors' cats has been pooping in my veggie boxes ! Outraged !
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flowertotmum3 January 2011 at 14:43
Whoophie..i love planning the allotment...hubby and i sit down and go through the seed box to see what we have and have not...i can't wait to get cracking...bad penny our neighbours cat poops all over the garden and doesn't even try to hide it...damn thing!!!!
sara,fen,iris
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

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It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

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Sue xx

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