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I’ve started making wine and am always on the look out for inspriration!
Here’s a nice wine making site that has plenty of info.

If you have a surplus of fruit then you can make wine!

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow-Audrey Hepburn

Someone asked!
Very cold yesterday! I went out but mostly to pass on some plants to someone.
I’ve got a bucket full of blackcurrant cuttings and got rid of about
12 yesterday to a plotholder!
The bees will love them so I will try and get the rest planted out soon.

I’ve got winter cabbage and purple sprouting under a net to keep the
pigeons off and have salads in the greenhouse and out on the plot but
the ones in the greenhouse will do much better.
I’ve planted shallots and garlic already and have broad beans to plant
too this month.

It’s interesting to see how some people think winter means you can’t
grow anything – you can it just takes more planning. Like the leeks
were planted ages ago and put out in to their final places in August I
think – but they’ll be there until they’re harvested from now until
spring. I planted 60 which I thought was a lot but it’s probably not
enough really lol.

I pruned the raspberries in the front garden and took some cuttings as
an experiment to see if they’d grow. If they do then I’ll have a
massive thicket of raspberries to share out or guerrilla plant.

I would like to get some guerrilla stuff done – just plant some of
these blackcurrants out and about… 🙂

The leeks is 3 a week for 20 weeks – which takes us to about March?

Someone was saying at the plot yesterday that they want to make sure they grow things that are good value for money or taste extra good.
Things like maincrop potatoes, onions, carrots are always going to be cheap/

The onions and leeks are stronger than supermarket ones.

I didn’t grow any sprouts this year – which I am now going to regret I think.

I’ve cut down the autumn canes of raspberries – they’ve not quite finished fruiting but there’s nothing worth picking now. There’s just not enough sun at this time of year to make them sweeter.

So I’ve cut sticks from the stems and stuck them into a section of allotment.

Yes this is part of my ‘can’t bear to throw anything away’ style of gardening. This is also the reason I’ve got a huge bucket of blackcurrant rootlings!

The raspberry sticks vary from 6-9 inches and have just been pushed into some lumpy compost in a corner of the allotment. I’ll have a look in spring and see if they all died, or some survived. I know raspberries are usually taken from runners that escape but I thought I’d try this method – if the sticks rot then that’s fine!

Part of my winter veggies strategy was to try and grow some salad stuff.

I’ve got all year round lettuce, mizuna and claytonia and american cress growing in the greenhouse. I’ve put some lettuce and mizuna out but am keeping plenty under cover! Mainly cos the greenhouse is closer than the allotment!

This hedgehog rescue story claims that 6 people spent 3 1/2 hours trying to rescue this hedghhog from a crisp packet.
“A baby hedgehog which found itself stuck in a crisp packet has been released after a three-and-a-half hour rescue involving six people.”

Surely in these times of austerity it’s madness to waste that much time and resouces when someone could have just poked a stick through the railings and dragged the bag closer.

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If we assume the shops on Loxton road are these pictures and the stairs that are gated off are in the middle left of the image then why didn’t someone just go and find someone with a key?