August 2022 vegetable gardening, a second spring for sowings, watering tips, pest strategies, new publications
30th July 2022 Featured, Summer
August starts dry here, after just 3½mm/0.15in rain here in the last four weeks. Lots of lovely sunshine and a pleasant average day temperature of 24C/75F, night minima of 11½C/53F. We are watering, especially salad plants, fruiting plants such as beans, cucumber and tomato, celery, and new plantings such as leeks, broccoli and chicory. I’m […]
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July 2022 plant raising, no dig interplant, weekly advice, making compost and different types
3rd July 2022 Summer
See mid month update in my newsletter here https://mailchi.mp/2132b158b2c2/sow-transplant-water-harvest?e=d992f1d9c9 The weather has been unusual. June for example was sunnier than normal, yet no war
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May 2022 new plantings, harvests more rare, many sowings in May, no dig allotment, companion and inter planting
29th April 2022 Spring
It’s a third consecutive year of April being very dry. In fact since 17th March we have had just 24mm rain (an inch). We need to give more water than usual, especially to new transplants and sal
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January 2022 no dig so easy, trial results, winter growth and new shoots
29th December 2021 Winter
No dig gardening and farming are easier because soil can “soak up” the extremes of weather. For example by draining freely, as in the German floods of July this year, and by holding moistu
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July 2021 no dig potatoes, succession plantings, make compost, save seeds, RHS no dig gardens, bees arrive
28th June 2021 Summer
A growing month, was June. Even though quite dry, with mm in the first four weeks. Average day temperature 21C 70F, average night temperature 10.5C 10F, see my live weather feed. We are fortunate with
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Mid February 2021 new no dig beds, new course details, sowing in milder areas, no dig clothes
12th February 2021 Winter
Cold weather has been gripping much of the northern hemisphere this February so far, but days are lengthening! Some sowings can happen now, but there is no rush and see my comments below, where also I
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Trial beds dig/no dig plantings and results 2013-2018
29th December 2020 Trials
For subsequent years of this ongoing trial, see 2019-21 page Starting out in 2013 I made two large beds, five feet wide and sixteen feet long (1.5x5m), the same area as Lower Farm’s experiment,
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January 2021 make compost, wood sides or not, greens and root harvests, new module tray, small garden
29th December 2020 Winter
Winter has finally arrived here with frost most nights. and days noticeably colder, as low as 2 C 36 F maximum. This is okay! Much better to have cold now than in the spring, and all being well you ha
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August 15th update keep beds full, cucumbers tomatoes and melons, save seed, make compost, insect covers, store onions
15th August 2020 Summer
Early August has been unusually warm here, night minimum temperatures averaging16C/61F and day maxima averaging 27C/81F. Growth is fast as long as one waters – we use a hose, which takes time w
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