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It's hard at this time o year.
We all are getting to that point where we need a bit more light in our lives, Where the winter feast o yule is over an we are all feeling the lack o light and the land is hard as steel.
At first light in this house we go out to fill the feeders for the wild birds and melt off the water from their water bowl, an then look worried at the fish in the pond to spot a glimpse o movement as we gently break a hole in the ice that so cruelly threatens to entomb them to an icy death .
There is a beauty about it though, an when the tops o the leeks poke through the deep snow in defiance , an the spring cabbage refuses to bow down afor the elements, then it makes my heart sing
Bet I'm not the only one here that is appreciating how this cold will help kill the soil bugs. I am also hoping my garlic will take full advantage to split an form cloves that will grow big an plump when the soil warms an the good weather returns
This is good ol fashioned English weather, a proper winter again that shrugs off the scare mongers who preach about global warming, this is the winter they said we would never have again!. Although it makes some things harder, like travel and getting about i find myself relishing in its horticultural comforts and beauty.
A winter wonderland for gardeners.
Wren
We all are getting to that point where we need a bit more light in our lives, Where the winter feast o yule is over an we are all feeling the lack o light and the land is hard as steel.
At first light in this house we go out to fill the feeders for the wild birds and melt off the water from their water bowl, an then look worried at the fish in the pond to spot a glimpse o movement as we gently break a hole in the ice that so cruelly threatens to entomb them to an icy death .
There is a beauty about it though, an when the tops o the leeks poke through the deep snow in defiance , an the spring cabbage refuses to bow down afor the elements, then it makes my heart sing
Bet I'm not the only one here that is appreciating how this cold will help kill the soil bugs. I am also hoping my garlic will take full advantage to split an form cloves that will grow big an plump when the soil warms an the good weather returns
This is good ol fashioned English weather, a proper winter again that shrugs off the scare mongers who preach about global warming, this is the winter they said we would never have again!. Although it makes some things harder, like travel and getting about i find myself relishing in its horticultural comforts and beauty.
A winter wonderland for gardeners.
Wren
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