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What to add to raised veg bed?
Pete.8
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I've created 3 raised veg beds. 2 have had lots of rotted manure dug-in last autumn, but the 3rd is just topsoil. Originally I was going to grass the 3rd but now decided on a veg bed. This year I intend to plant, spring onions, carrots, celeriac, Florence fennel and beetroot in the 3rd bed.
This 3rd bed is just premium grade topsoil atm. I've got more rotted manure, should I add some to the root-veg bed or to avoid forked carrots, should I just uses some BFB or Growmore?
Thanks
Billericay - Essex
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I would use the BFB for the roots and use the manure in the other beds, or save it to top dress the root bed in the autumn.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove, that was what I was thinking too.
The other beds were well manured last autumn, as you suggest I'll manure the root bed this autumn ready for it's transformation into the brassica bed next year.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Great minds think alike ..............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.