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Slim

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 21 11:27 am Post subject:
It's the wrong time to ask this, but did you refill the beds prior to crown delivery?

dpack

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 21 11:44 am Post subject:
the half ton and more compost on top?

Slim

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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sat Mar 27, 21 12:29 pm Post subject:
I thought was to fill up other raised beds....

dpack

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 21 12:54 pm Post subject:

quite deep is a good start for crowns

a trenching tool (other gardening tools exist, but that is my go to trowel for such things)could make a suitable hole fairly easily to give a nice deep nest for each of them

iirc once my seeds had become small crowns i planted then about a foot deep and then top dressed for a while

deep is good, fermented manure is good and can add depth as well as the other vital stuff for sparrowguts(my eldest as a toddler had a problem with the name but no problem snapping them off and eating them

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Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Mar 27, 21 1:46 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

I thought was to fill up other raised beds....

This bed is good loam soil, high water table but not heavy, broken up to a depth of about a foot, up to ground level. Then there’s a 12” wood raised surround. In this is perhaps 4-6 inches of compost/organic matter and then a similar depth layer of good topsoil, also blended with compost. No crowns yet. Intend to plant into this, mixing as I go, and top up. I think they’ll be a mixture of one year olds crowns and older, at a depth of 8-10 inches.

I also need to top up some of the other beds. They seem to be bottomless when it comes to wheel barrows of stuff. Not a problem; there’s no rush, the stuff is essentially free, time is something I have and, there’s always a shop to buy vegetables in.

Last edited by Nick on Tue May 18, 21 10:33 am; edited 1 time in total

dpack

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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 21 6:44 am Post subject:

the amount of manure and compost a decent bed can eat and still ask for pudding is amazing

i have had odd looks from folk when i have ordered "muck", a day with a barrow and fork it would be hard to find it with lidar even if it was 100kg to the M2

deep beds take far more to build but after that they just need top dressing and feeding

if you grow things for food there is no such thing as too much soil and soil in progress

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 21 8:22 pm Post subject:
Blimey, I’m planning on chucking 2 layers of cardboard down, putting a few inches of compost on top and forgetting about them!

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 21 1:27 pm Post subject:

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 21 3:34 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Blimey, I’m planning on chucking 2 layers of cardboard down, putting a few inches of compost on top and forgetting about them!

Oh, I have a bed like that, too. Pulled out the easy weeds, told the others I cba, cardboard, lots of water, and a few inches of compost. It'll be fine. Or not. It looks grand, and that's the secret to getting jobs crossed off your list.

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue May 18, 21 10:33 am Post subject:
This growing stuff is dead easy. You should give it a go. All 1 year old crowns, planted as dried out alien type things less than a month ago.

dpack

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Posted: Tue May 18, 21 10:44 am Post subject:
very nice

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed May 19, 21 8:08 am Post subject:
Excellent stuff Nick. If I had the room down at the allotment I'd make a bed but alas, I do not. I think I need another allotment.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Thu May 20, 21 7:33 am Post subject:
Glad they are growing. As far as I recall, you have to wait until next year to harvest any, but no doubt you will sample the odd spear.

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu May 20, 21 11:46 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

Glad they are growing. As far as I recall, you have to wait until next year to harvest any, but no doubt you will sample the odd spear.

Yeah. I think the longer you leave it the stronger it becomes, for the first two or three years.

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 20, 21 12:08 pm Post subject:
get greenery on the top for a couple of years, keep feeding and manuring, year 3 open sprouted or under a bucket for blanched, only take half

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