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    I have used a square metre garden this year and had mixed results (which is actually pretty good by my standards!). The patch is pretty bare now and I wondered if this is a good time to add a mulch of compost/chopped bark that I bought earlier in the year. I have also been thinking of adding vermiculite to improve drainage.

    Alternatively (or additionally), can anyone recommend winter veg that I could plant now. The only things I left in at the moment are a few Purple Sprouting Broccoli plants. Thanks. I should mention that I live near the Lancashire coast so winter is likely to be wet and windy but perhaps comparatively mild (though these days who can say!).
    Last edited by Blue Radish; 11-11-2012, 11:07 AM.

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    Originally posted by Blue Radish View Post
    I have used a square metre garden this year and had mixed results (which is actually pretty good by my standards!). The patch is pretty bare now and I wondered if this is a good time to add a mulch of compost/chopped bark that I bought earlier in the year. I have also been thinking of adding vermiculite to improve drainage.

    Alternatively (or additionally), can anyone recommend winter veg that I could plant now. The only things I left in at the moment are a few Purple Sprouting Broccoli plants. Thanks. I should mention that I live near the Lancashire coast so winter is likely to be wet and windy but perhaps comparatively mild (though these days who can say!).
    I know from previous threads wood chip/bark etc isn't recommended for veg beds as it locks up nitrogen if memory serves me, but I have put down a manure layer on the top half of one of my allotment beds for the winter and will rotovate it in in the spring.
    Last edited by Jamesy_uk; 11-11-2012, 01:03 PM.
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      Thanks. I will apply with caution.

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        You could put in some garlic or over winter onion sets or some broad beans now
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          You'd be better covering it with just the manure if you can......vermiculite will help drainage........

          Welcome to the vine from a fellow Lancastrian.

          Loving my allotment!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Blue Radish View Post
            I have used a square metre garden
            Just the one? It's not much is it, so don't tie it up with veg that's cheap in the shops. Have you looked at the http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...2-a_62558.html thread for ideas to maximise your yields?

            Originally posted by Blue Radish View Post
            The patch is pretty bare now
            Ideally, you should always have something ready & waiting to go in when something else comes out ... do you sow seed, or buy plants in?
            The winter veggies need sowing April/May, so you'd need somewhere to keep them all until they get planted out in late summer

            Originally posted by Blue Radish View Post
            I have also been thinking of adding vermiculite to improve drainage.
            Expensive though, and not environmentally friendly (air miles, pollution etc). Leafmould is free, and you'll be doing your neighbourhood a favour by picking them up.

            Factsheet about making leafmould
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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