Gardening Notes - January

Dear gardening friends

I hope the Christmas and New Year period has been a restorative one for you, whatever your faith or world view. My facebook feed has been full of happy family scenes, though I know it is not always peace and joy in the bosom of the family!

It's been very productive in my garden, in the midst of the berry season, especially on the boysenberry front - summer puddings, red currant jelly, country wine fermenting away in the big jar on my kitchen table and a freezer bursting with frozen berries of all sorts. The scarlet runner beans are setting the the bright red flowers are quite a display in their own right. Tomatoes are swelling. All the chooks are laying. All seems well with the world while I'm in the garden.  I hope you are enjoying yourselves there too.

Thank you, as ever, to Greg S for the planting notes.

JANUARY	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
French Bush Beans (last chance)	x
Swedes (last chance)	x
Turnips		x	x	x
Shallots/Spring Onions	x	x
Lettuce (last chance to grow to decent size)	x	x	x
Cauliflower   P to G	x
Cabbage        P to G	x
Broccoli        P to G	x
Cabbage (direct seedlings small style cabbages)	x	x	x
Punnets
Cauliflower	x
Lettuce - last chance before winter	x	x

Best wishes

Margaret