We awoke a few days ago to a silent white landscape. Quite magical in its way with the snow blanketing the building rubble in a sanitising coat of white.
But clearly way too cold to put any tender plants out into the unheated polycrub anytime soon.
We’ve had a bit of a mixed result with our early seed germination, and a further week of late snow here on the island. I think that some of the seeds took one look at the weather outside and thought, no way..
The cucumber and beans raced up to meet the world, but the chillies, kale, tomatoes and lettuce have been more reluctant to emerge into this chilly white landscape. And I can’t blame them.
The locals call February “false spring” as we enjoy gloriously bright, sunny days at this time of the year. It’s quite stunning.
But winter still has the land in its icy grasp and snow in March and April often follows. Plant out at your peril. It’s still frozen hard under those beams of trickster sunlight.
These are still days for big, warming breakfasts, pots of tea by the fire and much watching of the weather from the warmth of the sofa.
Ravencroft Skye 
I have just sown the first seeds in a propagator indoors. Like you I have nowhere warm enough to put them outside so I am going slowly and my indoor temperature will be lower than yours because my S facuing windows are quite small and my insulation not as good. There is nothing I can do about either of those so I just have to exercise patience and envy you! At least we have probably had the last of our snow.
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Plants are very forgiving so am sure that you will be fine. They just want to grow! I need to exercise patience too…
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We are having a false spring, too. No snow but it is almost at freezing which is cold for the sub tropics. Sure looks pretty in Skye!
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Thank you! It’s pretty, but cold. In fact being on the same line of latitude as Alaska or Moscow we should be very much colder, but the Gulf Stream brings warm water up from the Caribbean and hits the coast here, keeping us from freezing.
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Plenty of shivering seedlings in the Outer Isles too. It wiil do them no harm, it sorts out the weklings and will leave you with some good strong plants. Well that’s the theory!
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Let’s hope the theory’s right! 😂
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Lettuce and Solanaceae family plants are very sensitive to day length. I never plant mine until after Equinox in the Spring. Although I do sometimes get straggly volunteers, so it’s not a hard and fast rule or anything.
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