Well March has certainly been a difficult month for allotment folk with snow and freezing temperatures on two weekends with the Beasts from the East blowing in. Milder weather may have followed but this has resulted in a lot of rain, especially towards the end of the month.
With Mother Nature against us, it’s been hard to make progress on our allotments with even the quick draining soil at our Clothall Road site being too heavy and wet to do much digging.
Traditionally here in the south we’d be able to plant out first early potatoes that have been chitting nicely at home but many members have been loathe to plant them out with the ground so wet.
The colder temperatures have also meant the ground has been too cold to sow anything outdoors so many of the veg you can often risk sowing a row of in March, like carrots and parsnips, are still snug and warm in their seed packets.
It looks like there is warmer weather on the horizon so hopefully we can all get the growing season started soon.