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Talkback: The no-dig method

I love the idea of kitchen waste trenches for beans, courgettes etc and will certainly be trying that next year. Now all I have to do is dig the trenches ready to be filled - another job for the winter! I've never done more than is called for, being by Baloo66

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09/01/2012 20:01:42

by peteballan

Allotment

well? Any advice very welcomed. xTabby Hi Tabbycats I like yourself have a new allotment and am rearing to go! A good double dig and lot's of well rotted manure will do the trick!! Happy Digging!!! Hooray for new allotments But don't some things by Tabbycats

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01/03/2012 20:02:35

by Lerryn

late start,more advice please!!

? and im assuming fresh manure will do as i havnt got time to let it rot? any advice is welcome You're not too late! First things to get in I think would be broad beans, onion sets, early peas, strawberry plants. Too soon for lots of things like runner by geg jones

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07/03/2013 15:17:41

by Bookertoo

Talkback: Sweetcorn crash

-off this year (after 15 years, my first truly disastrous one), with the exception of this bed. It was well-mulched with rotted horse manure, water-retaining gel (ho ho - i must have mixed this in on the one day we didn't have rain) and thoroughly weeded by Wendy Newton

28/11/2011 18:30:04

by silsaloreom

Talkback: Growing parsnips

they get going remove the smaller plant. Then pop the whole tube and plant into well dug soil in the garden. This doesn't disturb the plant at all (which they hate), and you can evenly spread them out without the hassle of thinning them. The tube will rot by gardeningeek

28/11/2011 18:38:08

by Roncy

Filling a new raised bed.

rarely had to buy veg. This year I am using grids as I think you can produce more than in rows as can grow things closer together. My beds are 4ft x 8ft.x 1ft the new one will just be for squash/courgette I found with all the rain last year that my beds by Dave Tremlin

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04/03/2013 18:49:39

by figrat

composting

heaps a bit at a time. Just a thought - I now have compost ready to use from last year and was thinking about using some of it to grow cucumbers and courgettes in a cold frame (later) do I need to add anything to it or is it ok as it is? Amazing how by nightgarden

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08/03/2013 12:20:41

by nightgarden

Talkback: 'Grow Your Own' Week

artichokes - large perennial/architectural plants where you can eat some flower 'buds' & leave others to bloom* courgettes/ marrows/pumpkins - can be great-looking plants, generally flower well & you can eat the fruit or the flowers My family and I bravely by Jools

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28/11/2011 18:40:37

by Russ

Talkback: Carrot crisis

in the year or that can be harvested in the spring?Also having recently dug over a lawned area for growing veg what can I add to the soil to improve it? I tried well rotted horse manure from a garden centre ,and it seemed to hinder plants not help them by Lorna

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08/06/2012 13:47:18

by Excitable Boy

Talkback: Lost crop of the Incas

to do it?kill the lawn then till it in. Cover lawn with black plastic to rot grass, then till it in. scrape the grass off then till it. Being originally from Peru, I can assure you, this wonderful vegetable from the cucurbitae family, is not the "lost by Toni Lee McCulloch

28/11/2011 18:29:36

by Adam Pasco

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