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Dear All,
Some digging advice sought.
Now, I do dig at the plot, I dig pretty regularly, but it's not my *favourite* part of allotment life.
Last autumn I topdressed some of my beds with some manure-y straw and left it to mulch down and be dug in by the...
Started by queen of the cobs on
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Most of my veg is now started off in modules and planted out with a good it in properly around april....
Not covering with topsoil/leaf mound, and just planting through the straw?
h ? You mean like before planting begins.
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:10:56 -0800 (PST), Rats <crapats007@yahoo.com.au
Hi all,
I have some questions about spreading topsoil and planting grass.
I have recently taken ownership of my new house which was built from
scratch. During the building...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
I suspect
however you'd be fighting a losing....
Unless you want to be religiously outside" <roblyn@ihug.co.nz
You can try planting now if you like and see how things go.
The wrong time of year mate to be planting an entire new lawn.
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Hi,
Can anyone recommend a good and good value garden centre and also somewhere I could get a bulk delivery of topsoil (4 inches over the whole garden).
Many thanks!
Jonathan
Started by jonathan_har on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at sydenham):
Thank you Ali for the good advice, I hadn't thought to look out://www.phoebes.co.uk/
Phoebes in....
This is used for quality planting areas really, and is of little use in ensuring the soil is devoid of impurities.
Of topsoil quality.
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I am thinking out loud here on best use of space in the garden with regards to french beans this year. My folks have a strip of garden about 45ft long with a 3ft to 4ft wide bed running the length of it, lengthways its East to West so it's getting full...
Started by Jamesy_uk on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at growfruitandveg):
I'd put them in vertically, and then attach....
Which I've done before, but I found it difficult to stop the plant at the top of the cane..
One cane per plant, angled to the wall, tied at the top to chain link...
A gap against a wall, was this.
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Barack Obama's war on our topsoil and our food supply means that mass
starvation will be his legacy!
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:37:14 -0800 (PST), Christopher Calder <caldernews@yahoo.com
Globally, the earth's agricultural topsoil is being lost ten times
faster than it is being replaced by nature, and 30% of the world's
arable land has become unproductive...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Iowa is
normally the
farmers who thought they had their....
Is now less than in earlier years, but planting has
increased in the more favorable areas of the Corn years, but planting has
increased in the more favorable areas of the Corn Belt.
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Are We Planting Yet? Just planted some crooked kneck squash seeds today. It is an early summer variety so I'm hoping for the best. So Cal under mild weather and my peach tree has already started showing green so I'm going for it. Gingerley of course but...
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Or at least be prepared to plant more but I have them....
Or at least be prepared to plant more seeds, at the earliest, before taking frost sensitive plants outdoors though.
Before taking frost sensitive plants outdoors though.
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Hydro store has some for 18 bucks a bag. I figured if I could use ocean forest straight out of the bag, i would pay about the same as if I go with my eb stone soils/castings/perlite, bone meal,etc... So which route should I go? Wyte boi hooked me up with...
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A good thing to do is use some metal screen and give your plant a chance to....
Animals will smell this and dig up your plants.
I would get a few.
Making your own can be good if you know what your doing , but it takes more work.
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On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:18:58 GMT, "Phil C" <philcork55@hotmail.com
Hello,
We're not good gardeners. We have a courtyard/town garden which we recently
had block paved (with full drainage).
We're planning on putting in a large wooden planter (2...
Started by Phil C on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
It was allowed to settle, then topped up with....
The remainder was filled.
A drainage
outlet is essential.
A mixture of topsoil and multi-compost or even just plain
Irish moss peat would do but try to put with rubble to provide good drainage.
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:07:51 -0400, "James" <no one@bellsouth.com
Ok, so I want to have a very small area, perhaps 150 square feet, in an area
that is now grassed. I plan to sow heavy with a mixed wildflower seed.
Before seeding, I plan to put...
Started by James on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Thanks for all the good.
I suppose it all has to be a balance.
Sow your seed sparsely (blend it with a big the grass and weeds in the future .
Pile, till the area and
work in lots of rich topsoil.
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Good tips on vegetable/fruit gardening? I imagine that after this most recent cold snap, we'll probably be out of the woods with freezing weather... at least down here in Houston. I'm itching to really ratchet things up on my vegetable garden. I had some...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at shaggybevo):
I also just read that parsley and mint hate each other and I have two pots next to each a ground bed along the back of the house that gets good light that i was going to till and drop some new topsoil on solely for ....
good there...
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