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No dig diary, 2nd April 2021

Posted on April 3, 2021 by james

It being Easter weekend I felt that I should follow John and Yoko’s advice and give peas a chance. So yesterday afternoon I collected up all of my germinated pea plants, some giant matchsticks (or wooden stakes with worn out … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 29th March 2021

Posted on March 30, 2021 by james

High time I planted out my first batches of beetroot and spinach, today. These were sown on 5th February with a few additional seeds sown on 19th February to make up for the fact that germination wasn’t brilliant. The beetroot … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 27th March 2021

Posted on March 27, 2021 by james

Today I wanted to sow a second batch of calabrese (Marathon F1) and some early cabbage (Greyhound). I’m hoping that successional sowings of the calabrese will give a crop over an extended period as last year we had heads ready … Continue reading →

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The trouble with module trays

Posted on March 26, 2021 by james

We have plenty of module trays around, but whilst they’re very convenient for sowing seeds in and raising seedlings they can be really awkward when it comes to getting the plants out without damaging either the plant or the plastic … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 26th March 2021

Posted on March 26, 2021 by james

The no dig strawberry bed is now complete! I went through all the runners that we rooted last year and picked out the ones that were already showing signs of life, planting them down the left and centre of the … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 24th March 2021

Posted on March 24, 2021 by james

My wife wanted our strawberry plants to be in a raised bed (which does make them easier to pick), but I’ve struggled to come up with any ideas that weren’t going to cost an arm and a leg to set … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 21st March 2021

Posted on March 22, 2021 by james

Planted out my first sowing of radishes today, sown on 20th February and re-sown two days later after birds raided them (four seeds per cell multisowings): And then covered them with fleece to keep the worst of the cold off … Continue reading →

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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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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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