Allotment Garden
An amateur’s diary of organic allotment growing.
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Composting 2
Allotment inventory for 2016
Pruning for Fan and Espalier Fruit Trees
How I Grow Exhibition Sweet Peas
Nitrogen fixing in leguminous plants.
The way I get rid of couch grass (Elymus repens)
No dig, single dig, double dig, triple dig?
Tying and Winding up the tomato plants. (Supporting greenhouse tomatoes)
Is compost an organic fertiliser?
Why you should not have bonfires on allotments.
Rotation
Trench Hugelkultur and hot bed.
Pest and disease management on organic allotments.
Composting 1
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Saturday, 31 January 2015
Dynamic Accumulators? This gobbledegook does nothing for the reputation of permaculture.
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I have been using comfrey, both Symphytum officinale and Symphytum x uplandicum, as a green manure and liquid fertiliser for about forty...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Destroying Soil Structure
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I have been busily destroying soil structure; killing microbes; and depleting nitrogen from my allotment soil today. ( Am I just being face...
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Thursday, 22 January 2015
Continuing to raise the allotment with trench Hugelkultur (11)
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Although I don't think that it is necessary, I am continuing to trench the new allotments. I go down more than two spits adding organic...
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Continuing to raise the allotment with trench Hugelkultur (10)
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I have completed the trenching of the potato bed putting shredded woody material at the bottom of the trench and mixing it well with the sub...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Allotment inventory.
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So let's have an inventory of useful plants growing on the allotment and seed ready to be sown. Apple tree 'Discovery' A chea...
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