Category Archives: Veg plot

No dig diary, 20th March 2021

Posted on March 22, 2021 by james

Quite a busy outdoors day today, some of which was just getting on with tidying stuff up after the winter, but at long last I did manage to get my broad beans (twenty-eight in total from two sowings on 5th … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 19th March 2021

Posted on March 19, 2021 by james

I removed some of the leaf radish plants from the polytunnel yesterday as they were running to seed. I’m now using that space for my peas for shoots, sown on 5th and 19th February. I’ve set the plugs from the … Continue reading →

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Ancient greenhouse vent opener fixed

Posted on March 19, 2021 by james

I posted earlier that the new no dig greenhouse came with non-functioning vent openers for which I was unable to obtain spare parts. I ordered a couple of the cylinders for modern openers with a view to bodging something so … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 18th March 2021

Posted on March 18, 2021 by james

Back to the compost heap today, and into the second bin with a view to getting as much of the remaining area covered by compost as possible. The compost from this bin was noticeably darker than that from the first. … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 17th March 2021

Posted on March 17, 2021 by james

I had a bit of a shock this morning when there was an unexpected frost. The weather station on my observatory claimed a minimum air temperature of 0.45C overnight. The pepper and aubergine seedlings aren’t really happy with that sort … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 16th March 2021

Posted on March 17, 2021 by james

Nine days after sowing almost all of the tomato seeds I sowed (on 7th March) have germinated and we need the space in the propagator, so I’ve moved them to the greenhouse. I also opened up the first of my … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 15th March 2021

Posted on March 17, 2021 by james

Never say never… After yesterday’s impromptu sowing session, today I found seed for some Sparkler 3 radish that I didn’t know we had, so I’ve sown a twelve-cell tray of those, five seeds to a cell. They can sit in … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 14th March 2021

Posted on March 17, 2021 by james

I had no plans for sowing more seeds until the weekend, but whilst I was in his greenhouse with my father-in-law today he discovered three packets of mixed-colour sweet peppers. The fruit can be purple, brown, black, cream, orange, yellow … Continue reading →

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Culling the winter salads

Posted on March 17, 2021 by james

I need more space in the greenhouse for seedlings, so today I decided it was time to cull the winter salads to get rid of anything I thought wasn’t going to be productive any more. First out was the leaf … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 12th March 2021

Posted on March 17, 2021 by james

Almost thirty of my Cayenne peppers sown three weeks ago have germinated and some were starting to get a bit tall as they actually germinated over a period of more than a week, so I removed them from the propagator … Continue reading →

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