Winter is here !!

MONDAY 5 Th December  " Snow Clouds rolling in " The temperature at 12:00pm was 0.05c.

Xmas treat

Salvation Army playing in the entrance to the centre. [ Video ]

A trip into town today-it was to cold for the allotment,  i must be getting soft in my old age !!

First stop was Poundland to buy the bits and bobs for home, then Primark to buy a nice and chunky

cardegan to keep me nice and warm this winter- The Salvation army was playing in the entrance to the centre, i listened for a while-and at last it felt like Xmas was on the way, it was a nice afternoon out

Soon to be in the shops.

Not been down to the allotment for a week as i have nothing to really do down there- as its all ready for spring time [ roll on ] and its only 3 weeks to the winter solstice-from then on its uphill to the lighter nights and warmer weather.


In just over a month [ January ] seed potatoes, onion sets and shallots will be on sale in the shops.
I shall be buying mine from Poundland, its cheap and conveniant, and i dont have to chase all over town to buy them.

Winter onions update.

Been down to plot to have a look at onions-all doing well-BTW  the bench has been burnt on Helen and Rebeccas bonfire at week end

Got the Garlic today-3 nice bulbes-so will plant at week end .

A Dark murky day in preston--it never came light.

Headlights on

Honda FG 110 Rotor Tilling Machine.

The Honda is a great little machine-some of its many uses are, tilling your allotment [a lot faster than digging ] preparing seed beds for sowing or planting out onions, shallots, peas , broad beans, leeks ect-but the biggest  thing is planting your potatoes-its hard  work digging a trench and back filling-it takes ages, just till a  strip then plant your potatoes with a trowel or bulb planter  add fertiliser [ Growmore ] , then till a row next to it and rake the tilled soil from the 2 nd row over the first row to form a mound over the potatoes, same again for row 2 etc and your potatoe bed is done.

The River Ribble and the allotments.