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Seasonal Notes - January

January, 2024 The new year started as the old one finished: rain, rain and more rain! I can safely say that it’s been raining here practically non-stop for 11 months. A brief respite in June but I managed to go abroad - and find more rain while the sun shone back home! Story of my life… While all gardeners welcome rain, you can have too much of a good thing! And when you garden at altitude as I do, it just adds to the already frustrating issue of an all-too-short growing season. Soggy, cold soil makes sowing and planting problematic as roots rot and slugs and snails have a feast on new seedlings - if the seeds sown haven’t already rotted in the ground, that is! Of course you can start things off in the greenhouse, potting shed or window sill, but at some point they have to go outside and brave the elements - and up here they are very harsh.  One of the first rules of successful gardening is to choose plants appropriate to your climate and micro-climate. There is no point planting a ban

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