January is a strange month in the garden. After getting
through a relatively mild November and December you allow yourself to start
getting excited at the thought of Spring getting close.
Then the January cold sets in. This morning the place is
white with snow and it has been bitterly cold. January is all about patience…
it can be a complete waste doing certain things. Unfortunately patience is not
one of my virtues and I have already planted seeds. They probably won’t grow
but let’s see.
During days like this the best thing to do is to read up and
plan for the spring days. Last night I read a fantastic article about soil. I
got it from a great blog call My Tiny Plot. It is on all of our gardens and we
definitely need to spend my more time working it up.
My soil has too much clay so I am slowly trying to add
materials to it to try and improve it. Loam is the ultimate goal and the chart
in the article shows exactly why it is so hard to achieve.
Have a read and start planning for those Spring days which
are getting closer every day.
Here is the link to the blog -
http://mytinyplot.com/master-gardener/all-about-soil-structure/
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