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Alan's Garden Blog

Beating the Cabbage Moth - Round 2

Posted by Alan Singleton on

This is my set-up to protect my broccoli. Saves using chemicals and works well on a Watersaver Garden because I don’t have to get in to weed all the time.

 

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Compost

Posted by Alan Singleton on

The flies have gone! Must be more careful with stable manure in the future (see Watersaver Gardens FaceBook page). I now have beautiful rich food to feed my plants and the good thing it just sits there until you use it.

 

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Snow Peas: Green veggies for colder months

Posted by Alan Singleton on

Yes I know we can grow broccoli and cabbage but I am not the biggest fan of either. So have a look at the snow peas. I have seven flourishing at the moment so I should end up with plenty.

 

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Garlic success

Posted by Alan Singleton on

My garlic started to appear after only one week in the ground. It looks strong and healthy already so the effort to heavily compost the soil has definitely paid off. Nothing can go wrong from here? Not sure about disease but with the watersaver garden I can be certain it will not get waterlogged or die of thirst. I don’t intend to feed it any more before harvest, I think there is enough in the soil to sustain it through the whole growing season. Hope so.

 

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Garlic: Better late than never

Posted by Alan Singleton on

The compost I was waiting for finally got to the stage where I was happy with it on the first of March. I planted 34 purple garlic and 4 elephant. The following Wednesday I put in another 31 purple and 11 elephant. That’s when Jaye gave the order to cease planting. A bit late but I am confident that the quality of the composted soil and associated worms and micro-organisms will feed the hungry garlic right through winter and give me a bumper crop. We are still eating the garlic from our last harvest.

 

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