Harvest Monday - 29th December 2014

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This past week has been very different, for a number of reasons. For a start, there was Christmas (which Jane and I spent with our daughter Emma and her family). Then there was the cold. I mean “The Cold”. We have both been struck down with an exceptionally severe cold, with all the usual symptoms: headache, blocked / runny nose, sore throat, coughing etc.  A cold like this is so debilitating. You don’t feel like doing anything, and hot drinks and paracetamol only go so far…. Oh and then there has been the other type of cold – the weather. Many parts of the UK have had thick snow, but we have so far escaped that, though we have had a heavy frost a couple of nights.

In view of the above, I have not done much gardening, despite having the leisure time to do it. A couple of brief harvesting forays have been about it. I got a nice batch of Parsnips, about which I will write more fully tomorrow:

And another small picking of Brussels Sprouts:

If I had felt like it, I could have harvested some more salads, but to be honest I didn’t feel up to it – and anyway we haven’t been eating anything much at all…

This is my entry to Harvest Monday, hosted by the ever-dependable Daphne’s Dandelions. I hope someone else has something more ambitious to show off!

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