Does dry January actually start today?

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2023 to all from us at Weeds!

It wasn’t raining this morning for once so we did a little bit in the garden quite early on (in a sort of a mean as you go on for the rest of the year type thing). It seemed like an age since we were last out there and we did the old council trick of starting nearest the house and working towards the end of the garden. We only spent just over an hour but as you know we are from the “little and often” school, remember any time you spend out there now will save you bags of time in the spring.

We discovered things we’d forgotten about that like this brassica (below) that’s still going strong, the giant garlics we put in last month are starting to sprout and we even moved a couple of plants about. A question that was on our minds was why didn’t any of the dahlias we have in didn’t flower this year? Anyway may you all have a good 2023 and do get back out there if you get a chance!

Reel out me hose…

So spring has finally arrived! It’s now time to scrape the mould off those gardening gloves and that inch of dust from your kneeling pad. When you’re next out in the garden dangle a speaker out of the back window and play some tunes as we all know music and plants go well together.

The first recommendation is for all who love a certain brassica from Helsinki-based composer Jukio Kallio featuring some tinkling on the old Joanna. This’ll get those broad bean seeds a germinating!

The next is a lovely piece called Garden Dub for the tripped out gardener in us all from Pale Rider, a solo project featuring one half of the Nashville/New York dub duo Phase Selector Sound. Lovely stuff! Leave the top window open in the greenhouse so the treble can escape and float around the neighbourhood.