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    in the spring i am going to grow carrots, radish, turnip and lettuce in home made wooden rectangle troughs would it be better to fill them with compost or soil.

    feed up with the slugs eating them in the ground
    my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

    hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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    Don't know which would be best to fill your troughs with, but I would say stick a band of copper tape around them to keep the slugs off Hawthorns!
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    • #3
      If you have beautiful, stone-free, weed seed free loam for soil, use that.

      Otherwise, use compost.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by hawthorns View Post
        in the spring i am going to grow carrots, radish, turnip and lettuce in home made wooden rectangle troughs would it be better to fill them with compost or soil.

        feed up with the slugs eating them in the ground
        The four veg you have mentioned are not gross feeders and none of them like much fertiliser.
        Old growbag compost would suffice or you could make your own john Innes type compost by using sand, garden soil and peat/coir etc.
        I just mix mine up til it looks right and will hold water reasonably well.
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          thanks snadger

          grand advice
          my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

          hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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          • #6
            7 parts loam, 3 parts peat , 2 parts sand would you add any bone meal to this
            my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

            hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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