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Eight weeks now since the carrots were planted, we’ve weeded and thinned them today. Some of the thinnings were certainly substantial enough to eat in a salad.
26th September 2010
26th September 2010
And here’s the allotment as it’s looking today. There are six beds, each 2.5 x 1.25 m (~8’ by 4’) with a half metre paths between. So far only the carrots has been planted.
The other five beds are a bit of an experiment. We started of with a meadow full of thistles (see first Allotment Update) and need to work out the best way to create the beds. One has some skipped black plastic, two have a mulch of grass/thistle/nettle cuttings and two are left bare. Each visit we weed the bare beds, and pluck out anything that’s found a way through the mulch. We’re also cutting the grass paths short.
26th September 2010