I’ve just come in for lunch with the temperature hovering around -4C outside.
There’s no wind so it’s quite pleasant, if you’re working.
The chickens aren’t too pleased as their outside water keeps freezing over and they’re too lazy to go back in to use the inside water.
The pigs are very happy, though, as they just got their last bucket of chopped marrows - we still have six stored for us and a pumpkin, but that was the last of the fodder ones.
Our carrots, parsnips and neaps are still holding up well in the vegetable patch under their covering of straw, but the purple broccoli (usually fairly tough) is wilting a bit. Fortunately, we picked a good crop off the broccoli two days ago.
The kale and cabbages are frozen, but they always thaw with little or no damage provided it doesn’t go below -15C. Still, I’m going to heap some more straw over them later today as the clear skies are likely to mean even colder temperatures tonight.
I have more root vegetables stored in the outbuildings in sand, but the the outer half inch of sand was lightly frozen today.
There’s no damage to the veg as I made sure to keep two inches of sand between the air and the veg, but I might have to consider getting a greenhouse heater to warm the building a bit and stop the frost penetrating any further.
And now lunch beckons…
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