[Salmo]

What a difference a year makes!

23rd of February last year I sowed onions in open ground. My light soil was dry enough to rake into a good seedbed.

[mumofstig]

They reckon it's the coldest longest winter for 30 years

It certainly feels like it to me .......please can I have the radiator in the sky turned on for a little while

[Lupin lurcher]

Hi its awfull isn`t it, here in Kent they have given heavy rain right up to the end of the week, but the good news is by Friday they give 9 degrees don`t think it will make much difference to the allotment tho, its so wet just can`t do anything over there at the moment.  What we all need is SOME SUNSHINE.  . Mandy.

[DD.]

This is the first February for a few years where I've not had to mow the lawn, shows how cold it is at ground level.

Must be time to put me spuds in now, though1

[Loubs]

I always think of February as being the coldest month.

I'm just waiting for the weeds to start shooting up... once they take off, so will everything else. :blink:

[RichardA]

The weeds are a good indicator. But DD's point about the lawn is a very valid one -- my daughters have birthdays in early April and late April -- birthday parties were always here at home and if the little guests could get out to run about then all the better so cutting the lawn was a critical activity and hoping it was not too long or too wet went hand in hand with their birthdays coming up.
I am always struck by the variation year to year from another direction as well, my father died on 20th April (many years ago) so the funeral was a few days later and now when we visit the crem we are reminded of a  glorious magnolia that was in flower as we followed Dad to the crem and mum saying how he would have loved to have seen it in such glory. Some years it is still in tight bud on 20th April and some years it has peaked. Rarely it is as perfect as that day.
R

[mumofstig]

same with my birthday on 22nd April........some years the clematis montana rubens was flowering and some years not :blink:

[DD.]

Clematis montana rubens are renowed for doing that. :blink:

[Christine]

Look the weeds aren't interested here. So it's not growing weather. This time last year the weeds were busy.