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The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2024!

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  • Suffolk_lass
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    Thanks both of you. I have bookmarked the page and will have a consider in due course. It did occur to me that we could take a cutting from the current trees and graft on to a different rootstock. We will have to do some thinking, and discuss here at Suffolk siege HQ
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    well I am my own worst enemy. 
    I sat down last night to realise I have 3 types of potatoes and only 5 bags to put them in so I sat this morning to buy some more bags to grow in and accidentally ended up adding a blueberry bush and cucamelon seeds. 
    Now having to sit and plan my garden out for where to put everything this growing season but what I do know is I am going to be a busy girl this year!
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  • Right 
    well I am my own worst enemy. 
    I sat down last night to realise I have 3 types of potatoes and only 5 bags to put them in so I sat this morning to buy some more bags to grow in and accidentally ended up adding a blueberry bush and cucamelon seeds. 
    Now having to sit and plan my garden out for where to put everything this growing season but what I do know is I am going to be a busy girl this year!
    Wait... hold on a sec... I also have three types of potatoes and only THREE bags... how many should I have!!! 

    (Three tubers each of vivaldi and maris piper, 5 of charlotte but they're a bit smaller). 
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  • I sorted out the veg bed last night. Cardboard laid, then put some pine cones/needles that had rotted down in the corner of the garden over the top and then covered with a couple of inches of compost. It's not pretty and it's not got any sides but hopefully it'll be better for the plants I eventually put in it. 

    OH has put my peas, onion + shallot sets and potatoes somewhere and I don't know where that is so I'm trying not to fuss about them for now. I need to get some more compost as I used all we had on refreshing the bed. 

    I am slightly worried as I... ermm... found a couple of bags of old compost in the back of the shed to put on the veg bed (it was looking a bit sparse) and one of them was definitely quite mouldy. Will it be ok? Or should I not risk planting into it? OH said "well you'd plant into horse poo!" 
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  • kimwp
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    I sorted out the veg bed last night. Cardboard laid, then put some pine cones/needles that had rotted down in the corner of the garden over the top and then covered with a couple of inches of compost. It's not pretty and it's not got any sides but hopefully it'll be better for the plants I eventually put in it. 

    OH has put my peas, onion + shallot sets and potatoes somewhere and I don't know where that is so I'm trying not to fuss about them for now. I need to get some more compost as I used all we had on refreshing the bed. 

    I am slightly worried as I... ermm... found a couple of bags of old compost in the back of the shed to put on the veg bed (it was looking a bit sparse) and one of them was definitely quite mouldy. Will it be ok? Or should I not risk planting into it? OH said "well you'd plant into horse poo!" 
    That sounds very industrious! When will that be ready for planting?
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