Pretty much nothing has been done for a week due to ongoing freezing cold weather and being busy at work. Most days have been sunny to some degree and sometimes windy, making decisions about when to open and shut covers very difficult. I don't want the spinach bolting due to being too hot, and I don't want to kill things by exposing them to freezing wind! The cold has meant that the PSB has stopped growing and despite having twice as many plants as usual (4) I am going to be short soon if it doesn't perk up!
Another problem that is beginning to rear its head is lack of rain. I am having to water every day, particularly when it is windy, and I have already used almost a water butt full. We have had the odd snow shower, but not enough to collect any in the bucket that catches drips from the shed roof, let alone enough to do any good. There is no proper rain forecast for at least the next week.
I rigged up covers over some of the strawberries before it went cold, using plastic sacks that the shavings come in draped over bits of blowaway greenhouse shelving. I have no idea whether this will protect the developing flowers but it was the best I could do.
Other than that, really all I have been able to do is grab some lettuce, spinach, PSB, romanesco, rhubarb and the odd leek and go home before I froze solid.
Another problem that is beginning to rear its head is lack of rain. I am having to water every day, particularly when it is windy, and I have already used almost a water butt full. We have had the odd snow shower, but not enough to collect any in the bucket that catches drips from the shed roof, let alone enough to do any good. There is no proper rain forecast for at least the next week.
I rigged up covers over some of the strawberries before it went cold, using plastic sacks that the shavings come in draped over bits of blowaway greenhouse shelving. I have no idea whether this will protect the developing flowers but it was the best I could do.
Other than that, really all I have been able to do is grab some lettuce, spinach, PSB, romanesco, rhubarb and the odd leek and go home before I froze solid.
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