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>> No. 2925 Anonymous
3rd April 2021
Saturday 11:50 pm
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I recently moved into a new house with a garden and am super keen to start growing veg, but the thing is that the soil here is clay af.

How should I go about making the ground more amenable to the growing of veg.

I dug a spot out today and seived the soil for rocks and to break it it up, and mixed in general purpose compost and worm castings and innoculated the seeds I planted with mycorrhizae.

Reading online it seems like people advise against digging gardens, but I honestly can't see how life could penetrate the soil here once you get 6 inches or so down. Going to try daikon in the area I have tilled, and compare it to the neglected part of the soil. I need to start a compost bin and I am considering bokashi to accelerate incorporation of organic material into the bed.
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>> No. 2926 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 12:38 am
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>>2925
HORSE SHIT LAD - buy some sacks of manure and dig it in.

Also, start a compost heap, add all the garden trimmings and kitchen waste and use that to improve your soil.

If things are really bad, you'll need to buy, rent or borrow one of these. Not that expensive.
>> No. 2927 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 7:36 am
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>I honestly can't see how life could penetrate the soil here once you get 6 inches or so down

If the topsoil is sufficiently fertile, the worms do the job for you.
>> No. 2928 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 10:17 am
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>>2926
>HORSE SHIT LAD - buy some sacks of manure and dig it in.
Most stuff from the shop is pre-rotted, if you're buying it raw/fresh then it'll need to rot to not burn your plants when it goes in.
>> No. 2929 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 10:37 pm
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You would be better off double digging it rather than using a cultivator, because that can cause a hard pan of soil. Again adding manure or some straw will help with drainage.
>> No. 2930 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 2:53 pm
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>>2929

Will the weather in southeast England over the coming week kill the metor pea transplants I put outside this morning?
>> No. 2931 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 6:11 pm
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>>2930
I'm not privy to the upcoming weather, but I know where I am there has been unseasonably late ground frosts still. I have held off on putting out my runner beans because of this.
>> No. 2932 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 1:46 pm
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What is this lads? Can I eat it, or will it kill me?
>> No. 2933 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 1:49 pm
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>>2932
Ground Ivy. Yes, no. I'd leave it for the butterflies though.
>> No. 2934 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 2:16 pm
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>>2932
Good looking lawn ladm9.
>> No. 2953 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 4:35 pm
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What's this crysalis looking thing I found when mixing compost into my backyard clay?

Will it eat my radishes?

If so, is there a nematode I can use to kill it?
>> No. 2954 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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>>2953
You've found a wild kakuna
>> No. 2955 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 12:13 am
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>>2954

My thoughts exactly, but I now think it's a cutworm chrysalis
>> No. 2956 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 11:15 am
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Any of you lads know what this weed is?

I'm about to pull it, but it looks quite cool and most of the weeds around these parts are old herbal medicines.
>> No. 2957 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 11:47 am
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Don't know what the middle one is, but the long leaves surrounding it are wild rocket, and you definitely want that to grow - tastes very nice fresh.
>> No. 2958 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 7:41 pm
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>>2957

Yeah, I'm cultivating the rocket (but they're all about to bolt) but the weed has a sufficiently interesting appearance that I'll let it grow a bit more.

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