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- Page 1 Making the veg patch 2007-8
- Page 2 The 2009 Season (this page)
I’ve made a plan for when/what to do, but my efforts to upload the HTML here have failed miserably, so here’s a rather large image of my Veg Plan 2009
Veg Planner 2009 v3 - 16Mar'09
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Crop Plan v3 - 16Mar'09
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This Crop Plan is just an Excel spreadsheet. The cells approximate to 1M length of the row, so its sort-of to scale. I merge adjacent cells and then put the variety name in – that way of the dog eats the label I still know what-was-where.
The smaller Plant Greenhouse is completed. This will be used to raise seeds and plants, mostly for the house, and complements the Cropping Greenhouse which was completed last year and which I use to grow Tomatoes and so on. I’ve sown a few Freesias, Cyclamen and Stretocarpus to have something to show this year.
To help germinating my seeds this Spring I bought an Electric Propagator (click to see my blog post about it). I’m pleased with it, so far.
I’ve been waiting a while (nearly two years now!) for the local farmer to bring the (now huge …) pile of horse manure up to the garden, but he’s a busy one-man-band chap; anyway, as luck would have it, one of the other farmers nearby was tidying up the hedges along the lane today and I went out to ask if he could just do the tops of mine – something I was planning tog et around to during the winter … the sides are done, just the tops left. “I don’t suppose you’ve got any muck have you?” to which the joyous answer “About 100 tons, its all at least 4 years old”. Perfect! Not sure even I can get through 100 tons, but all the trees have been planted without any muck, so need mulching, and I need to put a generous layer on the vegetable patch, the shrubbery and the herbaceous garden (which I plan to plant this spring) – plus all the newly planted trees and hedges. I should be fit by the time Summer gets here!
Been doing lots … but not had time to write it all up as yet, but here is a revised Crop Plan to show what is planted out as of the start of June
Crop Plan 2007 v7 (Click to enlarge)
Cropping Plan for 2011
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I have put an electric fence around my veg. plot. No problem with rabbits since.
Regarding the “beds”, I have done mine similar, 1metre beds and 40cm paths, dug a full spit before fining down with the Mantis Tiller (electric).