The continued frosts and occasional snowfalls are continuing to delay progress in vegetable patch. Outside, the garlic is off to a fine start but there’s still no sign of the broad beans coming through. Inside, we’re fast running out of space in the sunporch as the first lettuces (three varieties), spinach and cauliflower clamour to [...]
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Gardening in the snow
5 April, 2012
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Snow on the ground doesn’t mean the work stops. The new vegetable beds still need to be dug so we all went out to do what we could this morning. Fortunately, the warm spell a fortnight ago ensured the ground wasn’t frozen beneath the snow, which meant the soil was workable.
Read more Making slow progress
20 March, 2012
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At this time of year, especially with the mild weather we’ve had for the past two months, I’d expect to have almost all the vegetable beds ready for planting and to have made a start on planting the most hardy crops. This year, thanks to my fractured wrist and the re-organisation of the vegetable patch, [...]
Read more Sod this!
12 March, 2012
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Preparing vegetable beds with a fractured wrist and a plaster cast is proving challenging. I suppose it isn’t a good year to up the beds from 16 to 24. But it needs to be done. We need narrower beds to accommodate the Other Half’s shorter arms. We need more beds to make up for the [...]
Read moreGrowing carrots
27 August, 2011
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We like carrots, eat them in abundance and plant many to meet our needs but, as with many vegetable crops, they can be a little tricky to grow in our conditions. Our topsoil is poor, stony and acidic, we have hard frosts from November through to April, the growing season is further curtailed because our [...]
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