Non Meteorological Carborundum!
I haven’t been down to the allotment for four weeks now. It has been too wet, squelchy, slippery and miserable. I have, or rather I had, kale, leek, beetroot and probably purple sprouting available, but it has just been too yucky to go down there and harvest them. Where is the inspiration?
Well, it might be wet and rainy but the sun is shining. Honestly, every day, the sun is shining - it just happens to have some cloud between it and you, but it is shining!!! There, now you feel better!
And the ground will dry out (and faster than you think) once the weather warms up a bit in March. Things will start growing and take moisture from the ground (a good reason for growing ‘green manure’), and the winds will take lots of moisture away.
It will probably only need a week of good weather before the ground will be workable (an advantage of raised beds), and you can start thinking of getting things in - broad beans, onions, even early peas, and then you will see things growing and that in itself is a motivation.
Then comes spring proper and the season of sowing and trying a new crop or variety, just out of interest, to see what they are like. And when you pod those peas or beans, or dig those early spuds, just think to yourself: “In the whole 4.5 billion years of the history of the entire universe, I am the first person to ever see this.” And if that does not inspire you…
Well, it might be wet and rainy but the sun is shining. Honestly, every day, the sun is shining - it just happens to have some cloud between it and you, but it is shining!!! There, now you feel better!
And the ground will dry out (and faster than you think) once the weather warms up a bit in March. Things will start growing and take moisture from the ground (a good reason for growing ‘green manure’), and the winds will take lots of moisture away.
It will probably only need a week of good weather before the ground will be workable (an advantage of raised beds), and you can start thinking of getting things in - broad beans, onions, even early peas, and then you will see things growing and that in itself is a motivation.
Then comes spring proper and the season of sowing and trying a new crop or variety, just out of interest, to see what they are like. And when you pod those peas or beans, or dig those early spuds, just think to yourself: “In the whole 4.5 billion years of the history of the entire universe, I am the first person to ever see this.” And if that does not inspire you…
Here's an old Latin proverb (that I have just made up): “Non meteorological carborundum” - meaning don’t let the weather grind you down.
SPRING IS ON THE WAY!
Submitted by John, plot 16
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