My Garden

Friday, 15  February 2007

First part of the week was spent recovering  from the free veg event  held last Saturday - lots of visitors and enthusiasm for veg growing, and a really hectic, busy day.  It was the worst possible weather - icy rain on top of the snow, and freezing cold, but everyone I think had a good time, and hopefully went away with some ideas to get them started with veg. The 3x3m plot seems to have really struck a chord with people

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Here is picture of the new 3 x 3m plot at Harlow Carr.  I'm still learning about attachments so please bear with me!  This should have been with the last blog.

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Here is the photo of artichokes Gerrard and Garnet - you can see they look quite different.

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Wednesday, 31 January 2007

The new 3x3m plot is up and ready to go!  The soil is a wonderful mixture of compost from the garden's own heap, spent mushroom compost, and loam from work going on elsewhere in the garden.    It's a lovely friable mix and should grow great veg.  For this year's 3 x 3m plot, we will pretty much follow the same plan as last year, with a few tweakings here and there

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