So, just as I was sowing a few trays of vegetable seeds and contemplating getting my potatoes into the ground, it snowed.
It’s the lambing snow. Every year in March or April it happens, apparently, just as the lambs are born. Poor things. My seedlings have visibly shrunk back into the soil in horror at the prospect of emerging into such sub zero temperatures.
I feel so cruel tempting them into germination on a heat pad in the caravan only for them to swiftly realise the reality that they’ve been born into..
I’m hoping for milder temperatures and a break in the rain and sleet so that I can carry on preparing the raised beds and get a few hardy things out there. It’s bitterly cold out there at the moment.
The polycrub is supposed to be being installed next week, and at the moment the site that it will sit in is a bit of a quagmire.
Mud everywhere.
Ravencroft Skye 
We have been having hail showers the last couple of days – with glorious warm sunshine in between. I have learned the hard way to be in no rush to get seeds sown but your polycrub should help a lot.
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It’s like a curse isn’t it? I decided to plant a pot of rewilding seeds amongst my veg one day last week and literally an hour later it snowed! Then yesterday I decided to put out my chitted potatoes, and half an hour later IT SNOWED for two hours!
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Ha ha! I’m not alone then 🙈
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Cold here too on Vancouver Island. This is supposed to be the banana belt of Canada – darn it! I am feeling very much like your little seedlings.
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I’d never heard it called that before! Amazing. Chilly start to the season everywhere, it seems 😊
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You must be so excited! Well, you probably have the Polycrub by now (I am a bit behind in my reading). It is true that the lambs seem to need a blast of cold air to be born. Our lambs would wait until the coldest possible night of the new Spring to be born, we would have to rug up and trudge out with a torch to make sure they were dried off and packed up with warm hay around them. Somewhere deep in my heart I believe sheep like the adversity and are born with the belief that the world is against them. Having Nature give any indication that this belief is true gives them immense pleasure.
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We do – it’s going up as we write. See later post 😊
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