Honestly, I don’t know what it is about leeks, but I seem to have a mental blank when it comes to remembering to get them in the ground in good time…
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At the end of May I reported on a nightmare aphid infestation. Drastic preventative measures seem to have worked, so far…
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To De-Scape or Not to De-Scape?
I’ve given up on growing garlic (for the time being at least) due to a few years’ poor results, but I am still growing elephant garlic…
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A Good Shallot Harvest This Year
I’ve been growing and saving a few ‘Hative de Niort’ and ‘Jermor’ for propagation every year for the past few, and this year we’ve had a bumper harvest…
Here’s a quick update on the Super Composter trial that I’m participating in for the folks at SoilFixer this year.
This year I’m trialling the new SylvaGrow Peat-Free Planter from Melcourt, one of which I was very kindly sent for the purpose.
Last weekend I set the planter up in the allotment greenhouse, alongside a control / comparison in the form of a bog-standard growbag…
This growing season I’m trying out the Super Composter – a new hot composting system from the folks at SoilFixer – and having set up the Super Composter very quickly and easily at the weekend, today I filled both it and the control bin with the first load of compostables.
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Man vs. Bindweed
It’s that time of year when, unfortunately, our plot neighbour’s bindweed patch really hits its stride. Here’s my latest attempt to combat the pernicious perennial, or the start of one at least…
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Meet the Plot #59 Composter Squad
Over the past few years we’ve salvaged from skips, scrounged, been given, or even bought (just the one, as it happens) a handy selection of plastic compost bins. Here’s the current line-up:
I think 2019 is shaping up to be the Year of the Aphid. It seems like the sap-sucking pests are everywhere at the moment: all over the Aqualegias in the back garden, on the onion seedlings in the greenhouse and in a particular nasty manifestation, infesting one or two of the trees in the Plot #79 allotment orchard…