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Where in the UK are you? Both my cucumbers and tomatoes were sownin a propagator about 3 weeks ago. I'm now in the process of moving the seedlings into pots - but they are inside a second unheated propogating shelf unit and for the first week they have the additional protection of a 2 litre pop bottle. The shelf unit , basically a set of home made shelves faced on the long sides with two old windows, stands on the staging in my unheated greenhouse. It'll be at least another 2 weeks before I pot them
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If your neighbour has a decent crop of cabbages then ask him if he limes heavily. He may have a better idea of the soil PH. Brassica's like an alkaline soil but you can solve this by localized reduction. Sow your brassicas in seed trays, prick out into 2" pots then repot in 6" pots. Add a handful of lime to a 2 gallon bucket of compost when you pot up into the 6" pots. Wait 2-3 weeks whilst they establish a good rootball in the 6" pot then plant out. When planting out make up a compost as follows
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Did you use fresh rain water or boiled water to dampen the soil prior to testing. I know patches of my ground are down around the 5-5.5 mark but you really do have to go some to get below that. I'd try another tester first.
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Grow privet, or beech, or hawthorne, or something other than leylandi. They make a very poor hedge, especially one of that height, you'll end up with a hedge as broard as it is high.
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Mine's 10'x12', never has enough room (ecept in the depths of winter), and cost me nothing, other than that required for the concrete and brick base upon which it sits, and £35 for the brick pavers for the floor (Ebay). The greenhouse can via a friend of a friend of a friend, but I could have picked up 3 the same size from freecycle in the last year.
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The featured nursery is this one [url=http://www.edulis.co.uk/]http://www.edulis.co.uk/[/url] although I suspect they've been swamped as well, and I haven't had a reply to my email yet.
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I've just done a google search and the only hit I get is a similar question to this one. I did manage to get a hit on Book Butler. The ISBN is ISBN 0563202262 and there's one currently on sale on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/0563202262/all I have both his Cottage Garden and Organic Garden books. Not sure of why you were after this particular book but you may be intereseted in getting "The Concise guide to self sufficiency" or "The Gardening Year ISBN 0861367383
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Yes, the standard seed you get from most of the suppliers is cluster seed. From memory beetroot is not the only plant/vegetable to do this but I can't remember other varieties off the top of my head.
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What you really need is a family of hedgehogs and a couple of toads - and a flock of thrushes for the snails. Shame most of them are now on the endangered list.
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Nemaslug applied as per direcctions will eliminate the bulk of the slugs present in the soil at that time - you don't apply it to the potatoes. However, unless you take steps to prevent the re-infestation then the benefit is short lived. For raised beds this generally means surrounding the bed with a 2" wide copper strip - which needs to be kept polished, and not applying any manure, mulch, or compost that is likely to contain slugs, slug larva, or slug eggs. This limits you to bagged comost stored
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