Just as I thought winter had passed, we get a blast of cold weather coming in. It’s been such a mild winter that I even started getting my early potatoes ready for planting. Here in Cornwall we can literally see the sea from our garden, which means we don’t always get that extreme weather that other parts of the country suffer from. It also means I can plant the early potatoes as early as February – but not at this precise moment. Frosty Weather There is always a silver lining in my world. So in one sense I don’t mind a nice bit of frosty weather. You see a nice hard frost kills any pests and diseases that might be lurking around. It also kills of slugs and snails that are hiding in crooks and crannies. We have a trick whereby we lay a large piece of hardboard on our lawn near the vegetable garden – it’s nice hiding place for those very small little slugs every morning there are loads of slugs hiding there, then we take the board to the chickens and the have breakfast! Seeds ...