What on earth is happening?

chookmike · Post by **chookmike** » 08 Dec 2013, 22:57

This morning I picked a good handful of raspberries, tayberrys, loganberrys and a couple of wild strawberrys to go with our breakfast cereal.

It is December the 8th.

This can't be quite right

We have also been frost free here - 20 miles North of London

How is it with you?

Mike

Post by Mo » 09 Dec 2013, 00:06

I posted on Nov 5th that I went out to pick the last of the runner beans and come back with wild strawberries.
By then we'd had a few slightly frosty nights, the runners that were sheltered had gone on until then but finally packed up. After that we've had some frosts hard enough to freeze the hens water in the trough part - a couple of times I had to prise out a circle of ice when I'd not taken the drinker in at night. Milder now.

lancashire lass · Post by **lancashire lass** » 09 Dec 2013, 11:54

I popped round to the allotment yesterday to drop off stuff for the compost heap and to my amazement, the pot marigold and borage was growing and flowering. Even the fennel had revived and some other herbs were coming up too

Mallard · Post by **Mallard** » 23 Dec 2013, 23:50

I pruned the soft fruit bushes only to find lots of red currants!

Post by Mo » 24 Dec 2013, 00:14

Mallard wrote:I pruned the soft fruit bushes only to find lots of red currants!

explain that someone.