Ruth and I learned lots of lessons and developed various ways of working with the conditions at Barmolloch, the farm where lived and worked from October 2016 to December 2017. The local conditions can be summed up in one word, "wet"...
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| This is a patch of ground that Stewart rotivated and which we went on to plant up with cabbage, kale etc. It was very weedy but this mulch of woodshavings, free from a joiner's workshop, helped to give the plants a good start after planting them out. Note also the rings of sheeps wool around the plants' stems which really helped to keep the slugs off them. |
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| Sheeps wool slug deterrent working again here in the polytunnel, a good mixture of stuff too, including sage, pests minimised. |
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| One of our least successful crops, tomatoes. We think it was just a case of dpleted soil as the plants seemed to perk up with a mulch of fresh compost. |
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| The best tomatoes actually grew here in amongst asparagus. Ruth read that they were good companions and so they are. We trimmed the asparagus back so the tomatoes became a kind of emergent forest layer. |
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| Strawberries as a ground cover for kale - no room for weeds... |
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| Three of our best: wonderful onions, kale and carrots. There's nothing like the smell and even the sound of harvesting fresh carrots. |
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| Looking down the veg tunnel. |
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