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Problem: growing vegetables on acid soil. Solution: raised beds

11 July 2013

Along with recently setting up my first perennial beds, I have now also got my first vegetable raised bed growing. first vegetable bed I did a soil test early on, and found out two key things. One: the soil is …

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Categories Acid soil, carrots, No dig, Pak Choi, Raised beds, Seedy Penpals, Vegetable borders

More harvesting, and green manure

14 August 202021 August 2011

I must say thank you to the weather, for hearing my plea and making the weekend predominantly sunny, or at least,  not very rainy, as it did rain for 1 hour on Sat. My lottie was ever so pleased to …

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Categories Beetroot, carrots, Courgettes, green manure, Pak Choi, Winter salads

Post-snow lottie: the results

14 August 202026 January 2010

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve blogged. I’ve been finishing up at my job at INASP and busy applying and preparing for interviews and it’s rather taken over a bit. However, I did finally get down to the …

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Categories Brassicas, Broad Beans, carrots, Lettuce

Gwenfar’s Lottie in the snow

14 August 20206 January 2010

I did manage to get down to my lottie today. I was clearly the only one who bothered, as I had pristine smooth snow to walk through (nearly 2ft deep) to get through the gate and to my plot. And …

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Categories Brussels Sprouts, carrots, Lettuce

What I did over the winter break

14 August 20203 January 2010

Well it’s 2010 – happy new year to you! I hope you enjoyed a good winter (or summer) break. As someone who cannot stand Xmas (or sit Xmas either), I choose to view the forced holidays as a time for …

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Categories carrots, potatoes

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