January

The weather may be cold, wet and windy, so there will be some days when your best gardening can be done by finding a comfy chair by the fire with a cup of coffee and getting online to order some seed and plant catalogues.

A new year and a new beginning to another gardening season! Those of us fortunate enough to have a garden during the Covid period have been so lucky over the last couple of years, enjoying physical and mental exercise and probably gaining a lot of knowledge in the process!

A new year and new problems! No sooner than Covid seems to be under some degree of control then we have an economic crisis! So we enter the new year with our national press reminding us of that famous second world war policy of  ‘Grow Your Own!’ to cut costs. More of that later, but for now, let’s take a look at what we need to do in the garden in January.

A new year and one we can welcome with a new sense of optimism!