{"id":3070,"date":"2026-01-24T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:09:01","slug":"six-on-saturday-24-1-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/six-on-saturday-24-1-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 24-1-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 4th Saturday in January, but not the last!  This month really does drag on.  We&#8217;re out of the cold snap now, and back into full blown easterly rain storms&#8230;..seems endless. I resorted to a quick flip round the garden in the rain, and a breather in the greenhouse. This week I therefore bring you a fairly quickly gathered #SixOnSaturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was please to see some veggies surviving the winter&#8230;.so far.  There are one or two broccoli plants leafing up again.  Not sure if they will offer flower shoots, but the greens will work in a soup or stir fry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2722\" height=\"2259\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/broccoli.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3072\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And in a different section of my veg beds, chard is still going.  Though the leaves seem to have become a home to an array of tiny slugs. Hence the holes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2246\" height=\"1642\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/chard-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3073\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the greenhouse, I have not been able to resist the urge to start planting seeds. Once germinated in the house, I&#8217;m putting asian-veg seedlings into the greenhouse.  They will probably end-up being a greenhouse spring veg crop. These are pak-choi.  very heartening to see new life coming on, even on a rain-soaked January day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1194\" height=\"847\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pak-choi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3076\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My faithful lemon tree is also wintering in the greenhouse. It looks like another fruit is almost ready. There&#8217;s nothing quite like a cheeky weekend gin and tonic, with home grown lemon slice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2593\" height=\"2424\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lemon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3075\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Any finally, and certainly more seasonally, my favourite hellebore is just coming into flower. You really have to get down low to appreciate the lovely colour and shiny opening flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1554\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hellibore-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last, snowdrops are coming. Here are the first few. I&#8217;d better get out into the grime this weekend and clear flower beds where there might be other snowdrops coming through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2415\" height=\"1932\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/snowdrops.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3077\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There we go, another January #SixOnSaturday. I&#8217;m hanging in there, hope you are too.  Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. Join in with our #SixOnSaturday thoughts and images. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim&#8217;s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https:\/\/gardenruminations.co.uk\/. And I&#8217;m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th Saturday in January, but not the last! This month really does drag on. We&#8217;re out of the cold snap now, and back into full blown easterly rain storms&#8230;..seems endless. I resorted to a quick flip round the garden in the rain, and a breather in the greenhouse. This week I therefore bring you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/six-on-saturday-24-1-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 24-1-26<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}