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Ugh - due to one reason or another, this weekend's big, heavy-duty allotment session didn't quite happen.
So we never managed dig over the beds as we'd planned - nor to get in the rest of the garlic. So, a few questions really, if anyone can help it'd be great......
- the garlic. I'm planning to make newspaper-pots one evening this week and pop the garlic into those with some compost for now, keep them well-watered and get them up the allotment as soon as we can. Would this work? I'm not entirely sure about whether it would need more space to start off in, but I've heard that paper pots are good as you can plant the whole thing, which'll then rot down over time. If anyone can share their own experiences/advice/ridicule, etc on this one, it'd be appreciated.
- propagators. Do I need to shell out money on proprietary propagators and such, when I've perfectly good plastic trays and polythene sheet at home? I can't see much of a difference between the two in terms of the growing environment for the seedlings to be honest, and in fact there seems to be more flexibility from a home-made version. Anyone got any thougts here?
- bean trenches. I've heard that it's good practice to dig over a trench ahead of planting broad beans, fill it with kitchen waste and the like (which would ordinarily go on the compost heap) and then plant the beans on top of this. Now - is this worth doing in the next couple of weeks, ahead of planting some beans early next month? Also, how should this be done? Do the beans get planted, as it were, into the composty layer, or does this then get covered over with soil and the beans planted into the soil layer? Also, is it just broad beans which benefit from this, or can I use this method for runners and french-beans too?
Thanks for taking the time to read this - if you've any comments or advice and such which might help here (and to be honest, for all my talk I'm very much a novice), I'd appreciate it!
Thanks y'all.....
So we never managed dig over the beds as we'd planned - nor to get in the rest of the garlic. So, a few questions really, if anyone can help it'd be great......
- the garlic. I'm planning to make newspaper-pots one evening this week and pop the garlic into those with some compost for now, keep them well-watered and get them up the allotment as soon as we can. Would this work? I'm not entirely sure about whether it would need more space to start off in, but I've heard that paper pots are good as you can plant the whole thing, which'll then rot down over time. If anyone can share their own experiences/advice/ridicule, etc on this one, it'd be appreciated.
- propagators. Do I need to shell out money on proprietary propagators and such, when I've perfectly good plastic trays and polythene sheet at home? I can't see much of a difference between the two in terms of the growing environment for the seedlings to be honest, and in fact there seems to be more flexibility from a home-made version. Anyone got any thougts here?
- bean trenches. I've heard that it's good practice to dig over a trench ahead of planting broad beans, fill it with kitchen waste and the like (which would ordinarily go on the compost heap) and then plant the beans on top of this. Now - is this worth doing in the next couple of weeks, ahead of planting some beans early next month? Also, how should this be done? Do the beans get planted, as it were, into the composty layer, or does this then get covered over with soil and the beans planted into the soil layer? Also, is it just broad beans which benefit from this, or can I use this method for runners and french-beans too?
Thanks for taking the time to read this - if you've any comments or advice and such which might help here (and to be honest, for all my talk I'm very much a novice), I'd appreciate it!
Thanks y'all.....
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