now just when I was thinking Spring is in the air. I wake up this morning to find frost on the lawn a thin coating of white on everything. Yesterday I had convinced myself that unlike last year, this one will be an early spring and so an early start on the allotment. I have put that idea on hold for the time being.
At times like this, I wish I had a green house or summer house where I could start the plants of in seed trays and gain a bit of a head start. As it is my only seed protection is a tiny polythene covered greenhouse, that you can buy for about ten pound. Today, I am off to the allotment to put the old double glazed window frames over a raised bed so that I can use it as a cold frame. I will put a layer of horse muck in the bottom of the raised-bed and cover that with cardboard, in my version of the Victorian hotbed method of raising plants. Then when I am ready I will stand the seed trays in the 'hot-bed' raised bed. It is somewhat improvisational,but that is something that vegetable growers and allotment holders especially are usually good at.
At times like this, I wish I had a green house or summer house where I could start the plants of in seed trays and gain a bit of a head start. As it is my only seed protection is a tiny polythene covered greenhouse, that you can buy for about ten pound. Today, I am off to the allotment to put the old double glazed window frames over a raised bed so that I can use it as a cold frame. I will put a layer of horse muck in the bottom of the raised-bed and cover that with cardboard, in my version of the Victorian hotbed method of raising plants. Then when I am ready I will stand the seed trays in the 'hot-bed' raised bed. It is somewhat improvisational,but that is something that vegetable growers and allotment holders especially are usually good at.
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