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Things I’ve learnt about gardening

Strawberries have their own pots. Who knew? And now we have one.

Raised beds are a good for growing veg, due to drainage, soil compaction etc. Also, edging is important.

A lot of different stuff about tree rootstocks. MM106, anyone?

A bit about dual purpose apples and apple tree pollination. Yum.

A bit about preparing veg for planting from seed, thanks to this book, a gift from Sensei Paul and Rach.

A bit about composters (the importance of turning), wheelbarrows (the importance of pneumatic tyres) and water butts (heh heh… butts).

The previous owners of our house had very… different… taste in plants.

Today we’ll probably learn some stuff about digging, dirt and hard, scratchy gardening work! We’ll be attempting to plant the following:

  1. Garlic
  2. Chilli (from Malaysia)
  3. Cucumbers (Balinese)
  4. Carrots (alicante)
  5. Strawberries
  6. Blueberries
  7. Victoria plums
  8. James Grieve apples
  9. Tomatoes
  10. New potatoes (sorry forgot about these! Got a new potato planter thingy)

Wish us luck!

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2 comments

By Armand – March 25, 2011

  • http://www.scotdevine.tumblr.com scot d

    Ah, the good life.

    If you have the space/inclination, you could also start lettuce and potatoes. Bear with me. Homegrown lettuce tastes at least twice as strong as shop bought – it actually has flavour, and this will develop the longer it grows. Surprising, indeed quite remarkable difference. Plus, it’s cut and come again, so you get quite good bang for your effort buck.

    Potatoes are boring, almost always need jazzing up (via butter, via pepper, via mustard, bia cream, etc). Not home-grown ones. Not only are the mineral-rich, they take less time to cook and have an incredible natural creaminess – makes you feel like you’re being hugged by a friendly marshmallow.

    Either way, good lukc with all the other stuff. If you have any leftovers… :)

  • http://www.division6.co.uk Armand

    Thanks Scot! We are actually doing potatoes (post amended!), had forgotten about them. Got this crazy potato hutch for them.

    Lettuce – isn’t it quite a bit of effort to keep it alive? Will discuss with the Mrs! Hope all is well at B2L towers…

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