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- Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:54 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: How do you decide what to grow?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8620
I found that the idea of sowing in modules helped with gluts, esp salad stuff. I sowed maybe half a tray's-worth of lettuces (mixed) each week at home, and planted them at the allotment when they were bigger. Sometimes I forgot, but it worked quite well. Carrots I overdid and we're still plowing thr...
- Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:08 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: To dig or not
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6710
Mulching in no-dig
It's the sheer quantity required that defeats me - and I am making as much compost as I can (see the thread on compost scavenging). The only bed where it really worked for me last year was the potatoes - because we're using raised beds I decided to try out surface planting. Covered the potatoes with...
- Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:01 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Compost scavenging
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14468
Scrounging
Ha! Very pleased with myself: today I passed some men doing some work on trees alongside the road and they had a shredder! Screeched to a halt and asked them if I could beg some chippings for my allotment paths - and they ended up filling up my spare garden bags for me! So: always carry empty garden...
- Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:29 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: planted garlic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5561
garlic
Not necessarily. I planted mine on 15 October and saw the first signs of it above ground on 5 November - but since then it has done very little. I presume like everything else it is temperature dependent so the recent cold weather will mean it's not doing much. It should have made roots for you thou...
- Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:50 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Compost scavenging
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14468
Thanks
Thanks for the suggestions - I didn't know the hoover contents could go on, and all the other suggestions v. useful. But the most interesting thing is to hear that there is a composting forum! A whole forum! Wow.
- Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:54 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Compost scavenging
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14468
Compost scavenging
Any good tips for stuff to scavenge for compost please? I'm becoming a bit of an obsessive... so far I have managed to get coffee grounds from Starbucks and rotten old straw from a farmer and loads of grass clippings from a playing field. But I could still do with more STUFF. The more I get, the hot...