1. Sleet really hurts when it's pelting on the bare skin between the top of your cords and your fleece as you bend over to weed. Particularly when you're cursing your lack of a waterproof ...
2. The heritage lettuce Forellenschluss is a tough little bugger. I sowed some seeds, more out of blithe hope than expectation, last October Without any kind of cover over the cold winter, I'd thought they had succumbed. But, while weeding I discovered they had made it through the winter when I spotted their speckly leaves amid the weeds. I've transplanted them into my newly-built raised bed, along with some lollo rosso which also did well over winter under an impromptu cold frame made of an old shower door.
3. Scorzonera seeds are weird: totally different than I expected - long, spindly and pale.
4. I now know what the nodules on clover that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria on them look like. Check out the pic on the right - they really are pink!
5. The Major - the allotment cat I've semi-adopted, is alive! I haven't seen him all winter but he turned up at the weekend, thinner and more flea-ridden than ever. I fed him and will buy a flea treatment for him but I think he's got worms. I think someone must be "looking after" him because he has a different collar to the one I last saw him in, but I think it may be someone elderly who isn't able to take him to the vet's. He's still a sweetie, allowing me to stroke him while he's eating, which apparently is very unusual.
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