Category Archives: Veg plot

No dig diary, 4th February 2024

Posted on February 4, 2024 by james

More seed sowing today. Red (I also have yellow) beetroot (Sanguina) sown four seeds to a cell in a twenty-cell module tray and a couple of similar trays of peas for shoots sown four seeds to a cell — I’d … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 3rd April 2022: Green Onions

Posted on February 3, 2024 by james

Booker T and the MG’s, isn’t it, pop-pickers? Well, perhaps 🙂 Two years ago it was time to be planting out my onion seedlings. These had been sown on the 8th February, four seeds (ish) to a cell in module … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 3rd February 2024

Posted on February 3, 2024 by james

More chippping of apple tree prunings today. Nearly all done now, and would perhaps have been completely finished but I was too lazy to go and buy more fuel. Once that’s done I can chop down a few more sycamore … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 2nd April 2022: Attack of the giant beetroot

Posted on February 2, 2024 by james

I think this must have been in one of the veggie beds for almost a year. It reached the point where I decided I couldn’t pick it and just had to leave it to see how big it would get. … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 18th March 2022

Posted on February 1, 2024 by admin

As I’ve just posted about sowing broad beans I can remind myself of how they were doing a little over six weeks from today, two years ago. I’d just planted them out. I can’t for the life of my remember … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 1st February 2024

Posted on February 1, 2024 by admin

I’ve ended up somewhat behind with stuff this Winter. Before Christmas my daughter and I both developed an ear infection that totally messed up my sense of balance for about a week and a couple of weeks ago I had … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 16th March 2022

Posted on March 16, 2022 by james

It’s been a grey and wet day today, so I chose not to do anything out in the open. I did however transplant my first batch of radishes (sown 13th February) and peas for shoots (sown 9th February) into the … Continue reading →

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Would you like some roast dinner with your parsnip?

Posted on March 16, 2022 by james

This may well be the biggest I’ve ever grown! It’s not my intention to have them so big. This year I’m going to try growing some closer together in an attempt to restrict the size.

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No dig diary, 13th March 2022

Posted on March 16, 2022 by james

Today I have been sowing more peas for shoots and radishes, peas for, err, peas, sugar snap peas and a few flowers (nasturtiums and cosmos), until I ran out of seed compost, so sieving some more is now on my … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 12th March 2022

Posted on March 16, 2022 by james

No sowing today. Mostly I’ve been thinning the hedge alongside our polytunnel to stop it shading the tunnel quite so much. Not much time left for doing this sort of stuff now. Spring hasn’t arrived here yet, but driving into … Continue reading →

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