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Guy Barter

  • Date Joined: 15 Jan 2007

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  • Winter roots

    Guy Barter on 08 Dec 2008 at 08:33 PM

    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... Read More...

  • Things are beginning to slip

    Guy Barter on 03 Apr 2008 at 10:22 PM

    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... Read More...