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Awaiting the weekend weather
For the first time in weeks I heard on the weather forecast today a positive comment about a possible break in the winter weather. It won’t happen until the weekend but possibly, hopefully, the wintry weather will end on Saturday or Sunday. It can’t come soon enough. Our greenhouse is filling rapidly with seedlings that need to be planted out. Over the weekend, we planted into seed trays the onion sets and garlic that we would have preferred to plant straight into the ground. Sharp night time frosts means nothing is being planted out at the moment. We simply have to get as much ready as possible in the greenhouse for planting once the warmer spring weather arrives.
The positive point about the weather over the past couple of weeks however is that it has been relatively dry.
Until 2009 I was working in London, UK, but I gave it up to pursue a life of self-sufficiency. My aim is to grow or forage for all my food, produce my own power and live a healthier and greener lifestyle. I left London to return to my home village of Sunniside, near Newcastle, in the North East of England. I have a couple of plots of land there as well as the garden of my house. Our village is a commuter area for Newcastle but we are surrounded by countryside which we use for picking wild foods. My mission in life is to show that it is possible to live well without destroying the planet in the process. I am also keen to ensure knowledge of historic recipes and cooking is kept alive. I regularly try out recipes from old cookbooks using the food we have grown. I make videos about our progress and about how to cook home-grown foods. These can be viewed on www.youtube.com/jonathanwallace.
www.self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com
2013-04-02 10:50:11
Source: http://self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/04/awaiting-weekend-weather.html
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