Aerial view of the Old School and garden taken by a pilot neighbour in October 2012
I wish you a very happy and productive 2013!
I had some lovely Christmas gardening gifts from the family. The weather has been pretty windy and wet over the last week or two, so I haven’t been able to get out and use the new border fork. Still the forecast suggests we’re about to enter a quieter and drier spell, so maybe I can finish the clearing up and digging over of the borders I started a month or two ago (dreaded ground Elder amongst other things)!
I bought some seed potatoes today- Pentland Javelin (first earlies) and Charlotte (second earlies- one of my all time favourites), so will be putting these in seed trays to ‘chit’ in the next day or two. I also got some Parsnip and Mangetout seeds to complete the 2013 Growing Plan for the Kitchen Garden – more on this shortly.
I hope that you found the first Quizzicals amusing! The answers were:
- Quince
- Love in a Mist
Here are a couple more (cryptic this time) to keep you guessing:
- Someone who patrols the observation points in bird sanctuaries
- Cockney bigot + flash Italian Car
And to finish you off, a couple of ‘garden ditties’:
‘A chard rain’s gonna fall’ and ‘Chilli don’t be a hero’ (thanks to Les Palmer once again).
I’ll be posting my Top Ten Tips for gardening in January soon as well as the first Plantax– a profile of the Hellebores.
See you soon!
Old School Gardener
Old School Garden 