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Walk around my plot
Just took a few photos this morning while the ground was too wet for
any gardening - I want to dig the last of the new deep beds I've been preparing. Photos at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rodsgarden/Rod's%20plot01/page1.htm No captions, they are mostly self explanatory. The big cage is a legacy from when shoots were held on the Estate and pheasants were reared just over the wall. I cultivated this plot for 31 years as part of my work, running this 25 acre private garden but now I've retired the new head gardener is scaling down the veg for the Hall so I've 'inherited' one of the three veg plots. There were already 2 old deep beds and I'm converting the rest of the plot so there will be 8 deep beds in all about 47 feet long and 4 feet wide. As you can see my wife and I are fond of veg ;-) and I'm enjoying playing at seeing what the results can be with all the constraints off. To make things more interesting to yer average amateur I'm doing without using any of the available greenhouse facilities.Anything started indoors has been done on the window sill in my workshop and as I said in an earlier post I've been experimenting with hardening off the 'nearly hardy' or early season veg when the seedlings are barely showing in the plugs. Peas are started in short lengths of plastic guttering to avoid mouse damage and to give earlier cropping of the early variety - rows across the bed. Some of the photos show the succession given by making sowings at 2-3 week intervals. Onions are heat treated 'Red Baron'. I've made room for some flowers for cutting, especially border carnations and pinks which I haven't grown much before and sweet peas that I've never had time to grow properly before. |
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