it's november!

and we get to experience the elements. We've had sunshine, frost, snow and rain. Hey - at least we have variety. So I've managed to get the necessary gardening in during the week: planting 500+ bulbs for spring colour (and yes, the back does hurt!). Plus I've started digging over the veggie plot - about a tenth ... better than nothing.

You have to adapt to the seasons, here. Not that I'm ever a morning person, but there is no point in trying to get out, at this time of the year, before the sun has burnt off the morning mists and ground frosts. But 13.00 - 15.00, if the sun is shining is wonderful. And if the sun isn't there - well, do some digging and you'll soon warm up.

But the rain is something different. That's why you have to seize the moment when it's there. If I hadn't switched off the computer at lunchtime on Thursday, 250 bulbs would have lost their chance to strut their stuff in spring.

Now it's been raining for a couple of days (and rain here = snow higher up). So though there were a couple of hours today when I did geranium cuttings (no cost - used the compost heap's potting compost), I couldn't have continued planting bulbs or digging the veggie plot (ground too waterlogged).

You'll have to wait till spring for the pictures!