Layout
A small Midlands plot, end to end
The whole layout in one post: polytunnel at the back, fence-line lettuce, and the picket-fenced potato pots. It’s a small space doing…
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Pots
Container potatoes: the simple setup
I keep coming back to pots for early potatoes: easy to move for warmth, easy to tip out at harvest, and they…
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Polytunnel
A walk through the polytunnel in late April
Tomatoes potted on, cucumbers up, and the first basil finally through. Late April is when the polytunnel stops being a shed with…
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Polytunnel
Florence fennel: fatter bulbs, less bolting
Three things have made the biggest difference to my fennel: variety choice, sowing date, and never letting the moisture swing. Get those…
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Fruit
First strawberry flowers (and the slug truce)
A flower this early always feels like a small win. The straw mulch went down last weekend, and the nightly slug patrols…
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Beds
What’s in the beds: spring greens and onions
The first proper round of cut-and-come-again lettuce is in, alongside spring cabbages and a double row of onions. I’ve gone tighter on…
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