Worse Day of the Year

Wiki calls it Psudoscience but it's certainly gone a bit quiet on here. Lets hope it picks up as the days get longer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date)

 

I dunno Zigs - it just seems a drab dismal Winter. I'm finding it hard to get worked up about gardening right now,
Jenny

 

Got me onion seedlings sat on me little brick heater as I type

 

Well I'm NOT sowing tomato seeds this early...

 

I would if I had a frost free caravan, me bananananas went brown in last nights frost

 

That's just reminded me of when I was a kid in bed in winter and the frost used to be on the inside of the window. No central heating then. I think that's why I hate being cold now.

 

That's nothing, years ago I've had it get so cold that my water tank froze, coffee left in cups overnight froze and a great lump of blue ice started forming in the porta potti tank.

Yesterday whilst it was snowing I busied myself with pricking out Chillies, Corn Salad & Canna seedlings, potting up French Bean plants, sowing more Chillies, Cannas, Corriander, Corn Salad, Spring Onions, Parsley & mini bush Tomatoes, and taking NG Impatiens cuttings. No flowers on my runner beans yet.

Went for a walk in bright sunshine at the warmest time of day. Cut some wood in the garden and fed 'our' Robin a few treats.

It can get nice and quite in the shops/car parks around this time when loads of people who spent too much money at Xmas are skint and waiting for January's payday, plus the winter heating bills and the credit card bills for December's excesses will have just arrived.

 

im a little bit ashamed to say this...but...im a little bit of a fair weather gardener im always thinking i ought to get outside and start tackling this or that but then i look outside at the cold frosty miserable-ness out there and think...nah, who am i kidding? and sit back down with a nice hot cup of tea and maybe a chocy biscuit or two or three and dream of all the stuff i'll do when its warm out there lol

 

Scrungee , you have made 90% of us feel very guilty . That is one busy day ! Like others I can't get my gardening head on when it so cold a miserable.

 

I have trouble getting motivated too. It doesn't help that most of the garden is wet clay on a slope. Skis would be more appropriate than shoes and the chances of landing on my bum about the same
Got to go out today, though, to wrap up a few tender plants before the next freeze arrives

 

Not here, not yet It tends to arrive from that perishing little island to the north Merci buckets!

 

I've tidied up a bit, but I keep looking and thinking it can wait a bit longer yet, getting the veg patch ready will be the first job

For now I'm enjoying feeding the birds and putting up a couple more bird boxes.

I'll be starting off some canna seed in a couple of weeks, so things will start moving after then

There's no great rush or panic needed yet