We’ve had another long, sunny day that’s seen me out catching up on many jobs. When the boys arrived home from school, they were roped in too with the Wee ‘Un put to work in the vegetable patch. He hoed several beds, then watered all of them.
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Six beds done, 18 to go
25 March, 2012
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Today’s good weather allowed the Other Half and I to continue working on the reorganisation of the vegetable patch. We lost a day yesterday due to rugby in the morning and my fractured wrist flaring up in the afternoon, but made up for it today. We finished the first of the root vegetable beds that [...]
Read more Why double dig?
12 March, 2012
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Whenever I mention that I double dig the vegetable beds, someone toddles along to tell me it’s a waste of effort and I should change to single dig or no dig gardening. Well, when I was digging a new bed this afternoon I realised it was a good opportunity to show why several years of [...]
Read more Reorganising vegetable beds
11 March, 2012
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I’ve finally given in and started re-organising the layout of the vegetable patch. When we marked out and dug the first beds, they were set up for me to hoe. I can easily reach the centre of a two-metre wide bed, so that was the width we went with. In the eight years since then, [...]
Read more Growing kale
30 January, 2012
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Crofters have long depended on kale, as well as its brassicae cousins cabbage and neeps (turnips), as it thrives in the Scottish conditions. Ann Dean, in Foudland Slate Quarriers and Crofters refers to the slate crofters who once worked the hills just up from us as living largely on a brose of oatmeal and greens, [...]
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