{"id":302,"date":"2010-03-29T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-07-21T01:12:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:12:48","slug":"battening-down-the-hatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/battening-down-the-hatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Battening down the hatches in the vegetable garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ian\u00a0says I’m a pessimist – I say I’m a realist.\u00a0 I guess we’re both right but I’m not taking any chances this week.\u00a0 The weather men are forecasting snow tomorrow and having been caught out in the new year (i.e. snowed in for 5 days) this week we’re getting prepared.<\/p>\n
It was a beautiful spring day yesterday\u00a0so hard to believe the warnings.\u00a0 However, we took the opportunity to tidy up the vegetable garden, do a bit more weeding\u00a0and make it more weather proof.<\/p>\n
First off we covered the potato bed with a double layer of horticultural fleece.\u00a0 Potatoes are not frost hardy and although their\u00a0haulms (stems)\u00a0are not poking through the soil yet, being frozen into the soil wont do them much good either.<\/p>\n