Do you have any home made compost or leaf mould? They will add organic matter but are relatively low in nutrients. According to Charles Dowding, the no dig guru adding 3-5 cm of compost each year is enough, and as you are adding new material on top the need for rotation isn't as great. Things like potatoes, tomatoes (same family) and courgettes, squash pumpkins etc are all very heavy feeders. Brassicas also take a lot out of the soil. Things like calcified seaweed are very slow long term feeds, and Rock dust or Remin, will keep fertility, and mineral nutrients up without adding any Nitrogen.
My leaf mould isn't ready yet, so it will have to be compost @Allotment Boy the only other thing I use is bfb in spring, so it looks like a top dressing will suffice then too.🙂
Hello everybody , nice day at allotment Finally got the last of my garlic in , a bed of broad beans & spring onions both under clouches Still lots to do , should keep me busy until Christmas
Question, I pulled some carrots 🥕 up and they had been eaten eaten half way downwards , hope that’s makes sense , should have taken a picture , no holes in the bed , anybody any idea ? Never happened before
Managed a decent session at plots today. Planted Broad beans (raised in root trainers). Then mostly clearing and some digging. Still having trouble with tennis elbow so progress is slow.
I spent half an hour last Thursday dead heading to fill the green bin, it's been 12 days since I could do anything much, this cold ( with hacking cough) means I can't even put a nose outside without wheezing. 🙄🤒😷
I find that wireworm is often the problem. I think they often start the damage then the other critters move in. It's one of those gardening myths that you only get wireworm in ground that has recently been pasture or grassland. Our Allotments have been under cultivation for 100 years and we suffer lots of damage from them.
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Finally got the last of my garlic in , a bed of broad beans & spring onions both under clouches
Still lots to do , should keep me busy until Christmas
Question, I pulled some carrots 🥕 up and they had been eaten eaten half way downwards , hope that’s makes sense , should have taken a picture , no holes in the bed , anybody any idea ? Never happened before
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther King