Another frosty morning, had to scrape the car windscreen of ice before venturing out. It's been cold all day but thankfully no rain.
Went to the tip with the last of the garden rubbish before going shopping. I'd been toying with the idea of getting a real Christmas tree this year and thought to buy one Christmas Eve on account the house is very warm and the last time I had a real tree somone flicked it a couple of times with their finger and all the pine leaves dropped off
There were some real tree's in Lidl today, only three left though so on impulse bought one in a pot, it's coffee table size, I've never bought a tree this early before, no doubt it will be dead before Chrisatmas day
A really hard frost this morning in WManchester. Sun is out, but still below freezing outside. Have fed & watered the birds & just re-wrapped a couple of patio pots to protect their rims better.
OH wanted some winter flower pics from the garden so has walked across the frozen lawn!
All plans to do the greenhouse clean up abandoned. J.
Jo, the greenhouse will keep, I washed mine down in October but will wash it again in spring. A white one again today in Stockton and not letting up at all, nothing to go out for as some are coming here. Large Ham cooking and now for the rest.
Beautiful cold day. No clouds in the sky. We had a severe frost overnight and it has blackened a lot of the plants that were hanging on.
Saw a robin skating on the pond a while ago. He had been down for a drink on the moving part of the water and then slid across the ice. He looked very funny.
Minus 5C here last night (near Leicester) and didn't get much above freezing all day, although nice and sunny so did some tidying and shredded a lot of stuff that had been piling up for weeks, but has been too wet to shred. Inspected my 3 and 4 year old apple and pear trees with a view to pruning them. It always takes me several views over a few weeks before finally deciding where to cut and wielding the secateurs, although fruit tree prung is fairly easy, I just enjoy wandering around the garden at this time of year, contemplating next spring.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Scrubbed the patio this afternoon to clear moss, a job I'd been meaning to do all summer, it started to go dark so the path will have to wait till another day. I've pots in the GH which need washing, cleaned the glass a few weeks ago.
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Another frosty morning, had to scrape the car windscreen of ice before venturing out. It's been cold all day but thankfully no rain.
Went to the tip with the last of the garden rubbish before going shopping. I'd been toying with the idea of getting a real Christmas tree this year and thought to buy one Christmas Eve on account the house is very warm and the last time I had a real tree somone flicked it a couple of times with their finger and all the pine leaves dropped off
There were some real tree's in Lidl today, only three left though so on impulse bought one in a pot, it's coffee table size, I've never bought a tree this early before, no doubt it will be dead before Chrisatmas day
Will buy ours next week, maybe leave it outside for a bit, and then avoid radiator.
Very cold here, ice stayed all day. Brrrr!
A really hard frost this morning in WManchester. Sun is out, but still below freezing outside. Have fed & watered the birds & just re-wrapped a couple of patio pots to protect their rims better.
OH wanted some winter flower pics from the garden so has walked across the frozen lawn!
All plans to do the greenhouse clean up abandoned.
J.
Cold here and now getting cloudy. Hoping to plant some bare root roses today
Jo, the greenhouse will keep, I washed mine down in October but will wash it again in spring.
A white one again today in Stockton and not letting up at all, nothing to go out for as some are coming here.
Large Ham cooking and now for the rest.
Frank.
Too true re the greenhouse Frank. Need to remove stuff destined for the tip from there first.
Have allowed up to the first week of March being the absolute latest to do it for me.J.
Nr Lincoln.
Beautiful cold day. No clouds in the sky. We had a severe frost overnight and it has blackened a lot of the plants that were hanging on.
Saw a robin skating on the pond a while ago. He had been down for a drink on the moving part of the water and then slid across the ice. He looked very funny.
Chris.
Minus 5C here last night (near Leicester) and didn't get much above freezing all day, although nice and sunny so did some tidying and shredded a lot of stuff that had been piling up for weeks, but has been too wet to shred. Inspected my 3 and 4 year old apple and pear trees with a view to pruning them. It always takes me several views over a few weeks before finally deciding where to cut and wielding the secateurs, although fruit tree prung is fairly easy, I just enjoy wandering around the garden at this time of year, contemplating next spring.
Woken to wonderful frosts the last 2 mornings here on the south coast we dont get them very often. Any ideas to keep my feet warm?
Another frosty morning, cold but dry.
Scrubbed the patio this afternoon to clear moss, a job I'd been meaning to do all summer, it started to go dark so the path will have to wait till another day. I've pots in the GH which need washing, cleaned the glass a few weeks ago.