New year, new Rhino Greenhouse perhaps?! January brings rain, snow and grey skies after the fun of the festivities but I’m keeping the January blues away with seed catalogues, planning the year ahead and getting outside on the allotment and in the greenhouse as much as I can. Even in January there are gardening jobs to do and I cannot say enough about how joyful pottering with seedlings and have a tidy up in the greenhouse is when it’s snowing outside! No rest for the green fingered.
If the ground isn’t waterlogged or frozen, bare-root plants can be planted and beds can be mulched. I finally managed to tidy and mulch my asparagus bed and added a thicker layer of mulch to the Dahlias as well. I leave them in every year with a good mulch to protect the tubers but with a longer cold spell on the way, I gave them some added protectio