{"id":104631,"date":"2019-03-03T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/all-eyes-to-the-skies-and-the-weeds-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T06:03:31","slug":"all-eyes-to-the-skies-and-the-weeds-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/all-eyes-to-the-skies-and-the-weeds-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes to the skies \u2013 and the weeds | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMarch can seem like a false start, but you can crack on indoors, and watch the weather for signs to sow outsideWhatever TS Eliot says, March may be the cruellest month. The days are longer, the vernal equinox is close, the clocks go forward (the first extra hour is on the 31st), but still it\u2019s time to hold back. In the vegetable garden at least.All the advice is to cloche and cover if sowing, say, carrots outdoors \u2013 particularly if you live outside the south. We don\u2019t cover over at the plot, so I watch the weather and forecasts obsessively and take my pointers from the weeds. If it is warm enough for them to thrive I might scatter or sow a rill of oriental salads. It is too hard to resist their ragged beauty. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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