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People have asked what are you going to do in your allotment this weekend? Since, where no snow actually lingers, it is covered with 5cm of mud on 5cm of frozen soil the answer is very little. None of the produce will get any better from now on so it is dig and use root crops (carrots, celeriac, parsnips...
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Root crops, potatoes, squashes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes and other crops have all been gathered and stored a frost free shed. Yields have been truly excellent – a wet summer is a very good summer for sandland gardeners in dry southern districts. However, lack of warmth has meant that the storage potential...
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Things are beginning to slip. With rain every weekend I am not keeping up with the planting schedule. On Saturday morning the weather was spring-like and I planted out my stock of bought-in lettuces and cabbages under a fleece tent with slug pellet protection (iron phosphate low toxicity ones naturally...
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