The darkest day and the promise of returning light | Allan Jenkins

It’s the winter solstice, so the days may not get warmer but they will get longer, and plans for spring can begin

We are finally at the winter solstice (4.19am today to be precise, when the North Pole is tilted farthest from the sun). This then is the shortest day, nearly nine hours less light than in high summer.

Enough science. Suffice to say, the dark is downhill from here. Yes, there are many weeks of winter still to come – February, not April, is the cruellest month for me – much rain, maybe sleet, perhaps snow. But at least later there is also more light. The first potatoes can go in in late February if you live in the south; early nasturtiums and calendula.

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