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<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/winter-wonderland/">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p> <p><a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jan-snow-allotment-padlock1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2587" title="jan snow - allotment padlock" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jan-snow-allotment-padlock1.jpg?w=455&h=610" alt="" width="455" height="610" /></a>It may be freezing outside but when the sun is streaming through the window, the sky is blue and the birds are singing how could you not want to go for a walk? With a slip and slide in my step I naturally found myself at the <a title="allotment" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/allotment/">allotment</a> gate. Wrestling with the frozen padlock I smiled to see I was the first visitor of 2010. And then I realised why: the padlock was frozen and the new Fortnocks style fencing erected since my last December visit made it impossible to break in. Fortunately the same big freeze keeping me out was keeping sane people indoors so after a failed attempt with some borrowed WD40 and a knock at a fellow allotment holder’s door I made it plotside through his garden which backs on to the allotment site.<br /> <a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mosaic-snow-covered-plot-3x2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2588" title="MOSAIC - snow covered plot 3x2" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mosaic-snow-covered-plot-3x2.jpg?w=455&h=304" alt="" width="455" height="304" /></a></p> <p>This is the first year I’ve been to the allotment in January <em>and</em> the first time I’ve had anything <a title="growing" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/growing/">growing</a> over winter. The brussell sprouts were nicely preserved under a blanket of snow and the kale is now perfectly white fly free. <a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jan-snow-kale-and-sprouts1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2591" title="jan snow - kale and sprouts" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jan-snow-kale-and-sprouts1.jpg?w=455&h=606" alt="" width="455" height="606" /></a></p> <p>I suspect my broad bean <a title="seedlings" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/seedlings/">seedlings</a> have snuffed it so I expect I’ll be re-sowing in in February. So this solitary rye sun seeker was a welcome sight. <a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jan-snow-green-manure-shoot-in-snow1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2595" title="jan snow - green manure shoot in snow" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jan-snow-green-manure-shoot-in-snow1.jpg?w=455&h=606" alt="" width="455" height="606" /></a></p> <p>Top of my list of allotment things ‘<em>To Do</em>‘ in the Spring will be roofing the shed. 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