Well, that was a pretty healthy break from blog writing wasn’t it?  In our defence we’ve been pretty busy with wedding things as well December was a write off due to the weather.  Well almost a write off… we got our new shed in December and decided to put it up there and then with some help from Bob.  Doesn’t sound much I suppose, putting up a shed, well the temperature didn’t get above -6 C and there was a good 4-5″ of snow.   Still, at least the sun was out!

We haven’t done that much else over the winter really.  The greenhouse we bought is still sat at the back of the plot, but we did put in a new apple tree at he back of the new plot.  That makes three fruit trees in this part which I’m pretty sure equals an fruit orchard. 

Things have started up again lately (well as much as they can when you have a wedding to plan).  We’ve dug over quite a lot of the new plot, it’s quite nice how easy it is to dig after having things grown in it this year.  The jury is still out on the effectiveness of the green manure but the roots do seem to have broken up the soil a bit..

Elsewhere we have started planting the new crops for the year – the garlic and shallots are in and Pilla started sowing some flowers in the greenhouse this weekend whilst I was away.

Roll on the summer!