| #495 |
Hardly worth mentioning this but it's been well over a month since I added to this thread so here goes.
Called at allotment this morning with my newly aquired onion hoe, intending to (you guessed it!) hoe my onions.
The ground was frozen solid and I managed to hoe one small bed. Because the soil was frozen the hoe chopped off the weeds at ground level easily. The downside was that because of the frozen conditions, everything had 'flopped' and some of the onion leaves were even stuck to the ground. This made hoeing between them awkward and I did chop some of the onion foliage by mistake.
Far better to wait until the ground thaws and plants revert to there upright position methinks.
It's a start anyway, and I am looking forward to tidying the plot of weeds and hopefully having a decent growing season in 2026?
I shouldn't really complain as 2025 has been a decent growing year for me, but once I get my greenhouse patched up again I should make better use of it this coming year? The only thing I had in the greenhouse this year were two young grapevines (hope to get some grapes this year?) and two Peruvian lillies under a misssing roof pane so I didn't need to water them. This backfired as they got waterlogged then froze, but hopefully I have managed to save them. They were a tenner each so it would break my heart if I lost them? 
Called at allotment this morning with my newly aquired onion hoe, intending to (you guessed it!) hoe my onions.
The ground was frozen solid and I managed to hoe one small bed. Because the soil was frozen the hoe chopped off the weeds at ground level easily. The downside was that because of the frozen conditions, everything had 'flopped' and some of the onion leaves were even stuck to the ground. This made hoeing between them awkward and I did chop some of the onion foliage by mistake.
Far better to wait until the ground thaws and plants revert to there upright position methinks.
It's a start anyway, and I am looking forward to tidying the plot of weeds and hopefully having a decent growing season in 2026?
I shouldn't really complain as 2025 has been a decent growing year for me, but once I get my greenhouse patched up again I should make better use of it this coming year? The only thing I had in the greenhouse this year were two young grapevines (hope to get some grapes this year?) and two Peruvian lillies under a misssing roof pane so I didn't need to water them. This backfired as they got waterlogged then froze, but hopefully I have managed to save them. They were a tenner each so it would break my heart if I lost them?
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