The Long Range Weather Forecast
High pressure to the southwest of the UK will likely be the dominant feature for the week ahead allowing Over the weekend fronts to move through the British Isles even affecting the South-East with north westerly, cooling winds with a risk of ground frost on Saturday.
From Monday onwards the high pressure will move up and will block the fronts form reaching the southern parts of Britain, but low-pressure fronts still affect northern parts at times, where wet and windy weather can be expected. Through this period, high pressure is likely to spread across much of the UK leading to settled conditions developing more widely bringing higher day and night temperatures a little above average. Yet in the North some colder interludes are possible, where there could be some wintry showers at times.
The Hungry Gap, Foraging and Detoxing
Traditionally, the time of Lent was very challenging and people went out foraging for the little green food that started growing wild at this time of year.
This year with a warm start of March (‘coming in like a lamb and going out like a lion’),
nettles, wild garlic, comphrey, cleavers, veronica, dead nettle, sow thistle, sorrel, rhubarb and other bitter and sour tasting wild and cultivated plants are up already for two weeks outdoors to forage on.
For those, who want to make use of this time for detoxing it is ideal to just go out and forage the above plants to clean out their system form toxins and metabolites acidifying and inhibiting the physical body.
The Abundant Bd Spring Garden
If you had planted your garden outdoors with overwintering cabbage, Savoy cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, rutabaga, and if you had stored your black radish, you would have an amazing store of living, sprouting and growing plants to harvest from.
Other plants that could have overwintered this winter outdoors are leek, parsnip, parsley, celeriac, sugarloaf lettuce, radicchio, lambs lettuce, beetroot, spring onions and garlic.
Moreover, if you had planted your unheated polytunnel, greenhouse or coldframe
you would harvest now lettuce, endive, radicchio, sugarloaf, miners salad and lambs lettuce, rocket, mustards, mizuna, pakchoi, Swiss, chard, pertepetual spinach, spinach and celery, etc.
So, for next autumn and winter start planning your indoor and outdoor biodynamic garden and start sowing in beginning of July for outdoor plants to overwinter and sow in late August and beginning of September for your indoor garden.
If in doubt, get your 2026 grow Your Own Calendar and join us in our first 2026 Calendar Club Session on the 31. March to ge the full benefit from your biodynamic garden.
Wishing you an abundant gardening year
Hans-Günther