Category: Spring

April 2019 sowing and planting, no dig advice and dealing with weeds
28th March 2019 Featured, Spring
Early spring can be deceptive, with the temporary warmth of strong sunshine, yet with cold winds. Stick to your known best times for sowing, and don’t be tempted to sow earlier. For example I have n
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March update 2019 – sow, plant, winter veg, new online course
12th March 2019 Featured, Spring
12th March and the weather has been wild, the famous March lion, so I look forward to quieter conditions soon – a full moon on the equinox may initiate a shift! We had a gust of 63mph on 10th an
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Small garden (4) June, growth of spring plantings and planning for summer
4th December 2018 Small Garden, Spring, Summer, Videos
How spring plantings coped with a cold, wet April followed by a warm, dry May. Clearing spring harvests to make way for summer plantings of beans, kale, carrots, leeks and salads.
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How to grow radish multisow or direct for fast harvests spring and autumn
4th December 2018 Autumn, Sowing, Spring, Videos
A re-release after the first upload of May 2017 disappeared from my YouTube channel. The same video, filmed and edited by Edward Dowding February to April, starting with multisowing the seeds in modul
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Small Garden (3) in April 2018, how winter unfolded and new, spring plantings
4th December 2018 Small Garden, Spring, Videos
Homeacres small garden of 25sqm/270sqft, no dig and compost-mulched. See the evolution of this space through a year of planting and picking a wide range of vegetables and herbs, with little weeding ne
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Ways to grow and pick broad beans, showing results of sowing both autumn and spring
4th December 2018 Autumn, Sowing, Spring, Videos
Broad or FAVA beans are a hardy vegetable which tolerates some frost. In my garden, zone 8 climate with average winter lows of -6 to -8C/20F, broad beans get their roots down in autumn and sit quietly
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May 15th 2018 planting, picking leaves, weed thoroughly, plant supports, removing covers, compost quality
16th May 2018 Spring
May is proving way sunnier than April, as spring merges into summer. However there are still cool nights – we are forecast a ground frost on 18th. I hope you are enjoying some fine leafy harvest
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May 2018 uncover beds, potting compost & no dig trials, sowing & planting
30th April 2018 Spring
We can hope for better weather in May… after the least sunny April I have ever recorded. Temperatures however were close to normal, thanks to the cloud cover keeping nights mild and frost-free. Soon
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April 2018 mid month: propagation, planting tips, make compost, weather damage, picking salad leaves
15th April 2018 Spring
The first two weeks of April here were more like December, in terms of light levels. However after the new moon tonight (15th-16th) and it’s associated rain, there is a change to ten days of warmer
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April 2018 planting size, plants that survive winter, seeds not emerging, slug advice, no dig drainage
30th March 2018 Spring
It’s the weather stupid! April is starting very wet here, cold and even colder to the north. We are late with outdoor sowings and plantings, I have not even sown parsnips yet. This blog looks at way
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Mid March 2018 stocky seedlings no hardening off, broad beans & onions, potatoes later planting, stored cabbage & onion
16th March 2018 Spring
As the weather goes from cold to mild to cold again, one thing is constant, soil. Undisturbed, compost-mulched ground helps plants to maintain health and grow whenever conditions allow. Soon it will b
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March ’18: sowing undercover, no dig feedback, a mound, stored veg, pea shoots
27th February 2018 Spring
Cold conditions in Europe mean a slow start to spring: it’s -7C/19F with windchill, as I write this. On the other hand there is more time to mulch and feed soil, if you have not already. Early s
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