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Thursday, May 02, 2024 Dutch Brad Netherlands

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Decided to come out of AG and squash retirement. It's already been 17 years since I grew a WR squash and ER pumpkin and 15 years since a WR marrow. Time flies. Moved the garden from a community allotment to a farm where I am head gardener. Just set up a new polytunnel of 9.5m x 26m (30ft x 85ft), big enough for 1 AG, 1 squash, 2 FPs and other giant vegetables. Added about 6 inches of year old Galloway beef cattle manure, the same of mature compost as well as worm compost, bone meal, crushed oyster shells, lime, silica, blood meal, lava dust, organic fertilizer, kalium, kelp, borium, root stimulator, enzymes and mycorrhiza fungi. As always, it's all no-dig. Till last fall, dairy cattle were grazing where the tunnel is now.
 



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