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Raised Vegetable Garden

craftyslh

It is brilliant, we've now moved in with my parents so have a large garden to work with. It will be hard bringing the garden back into order. The soil is very sandy and needs lots of organic matter incorporating. I want to work organically too as I feel it is really important to work with the environment and don't want chemicals getting into our bodies.

We did add loads of spent mushroom compost last year, which has started to help, but previously very little organic matter has been...

craftyslh

I've been out and tidied up some more. We put away the table and umbrella, emptied the compost trug into the bin, its still quite full because its too cold at the moment to break down fast. I moved some pots near to the SW corner for comfort and swept up more leaves. I also cut down/pulled up the remaining gladioli leaves, they didn't die down (i thought they would like daffs but no) and cleaned out the trugs they were in. I have no idea whether they'll come back next year but we'll see - its...

Marthaclematis

We've opened all the Christmas presents and have no plans till later so today I will try and get out into the garden. There's not a lot to do except sweep up the remaining leaves which are hiding next to the fence - we've been good this year and tided up as we went along. I'll go and see if there are any more bulbs coming, I'm not sure there should be as they'll get damaged if there is a frost. We're having really mild weather. We haven't put the table and umbrella away yet - I'll ask...

Marthaclematis

The next glasshouse has been ordered from Perity's, a 13ft wide by 40ft 6" long dutch light timber framed house. With increased length roof and side panels, auto vents and toughened safety glass. Installation due middle of Feb-09.

We seem to have a serious problem with the base of the 20 x 10 rhino. It turns out that the contractors that laid the base didn't use the correct ratio of sand to cement and also didn't degass it. This has resulted in sections of the base cracking away...

dieselthedemon