SEASONAL NOTES - MARCH 2025
I can hardly believe it’s been over a year since I have written a blog post on the garden. Reflecting on this I realise there is one main factor: the weather last year. It was a terrible year for gardening in general but even more so when you are dealing with a high altitude garden in one of the wettest, coolest regions of the country! With climate change slowly impacting, the seasons have become erratic, even since I moved here 22 years ago. The winters are less cold so there is less snow and less frost to kill the pests and allow the soil to lie dormant. Yes, even soil has to rest! It is a living element, pumped full of life and organisms - a complete ecosystem which sometimes needs to be fallow, to lie low, to heal and recuperate its vital energy after so much activity. Just like us. And this leads me neatly to another factor in my lack of gardening last year: I seemed to be beset by my own structural issues! I lurched from back pain to knee pain to hip pain to elbow pain to fo...
