Learning garden veg

With the Learning garden producing so much produce at this time we are selling off surpluses in the Garden Centre.
This week we have lettuce, broad beans and some cut flowers for sale.

How big is your Pumpkin ?

After a weeks growing we feel our pumpkins are getting established. We lavished plenty of water onto them over the last week even though there has been a threat of rain, unfortunately the rain we received did not really get well into the soil so Julian has been giving these a good soaking each day. How are yours getting on?

Eel worm attack

It looks like we have discovered the first signs of eel-worm in our Chinese radish today.
Planting out Borlotto beans that have been raised in our nursery poly-tunnels.
More courgettes and sweet corn being planted today again all raised under-cover to be in the perfect condition for planting.

Clay glorious clay

What a dilemma when you clear a green field site with a plan to create an educational garden and discover that the top soil is limited to max 30cms and the sub soil is solid clay.
But we want to build a cob wall around the field - yippeee we have more clay than we are likely to need.
But how should we approach soil improvement when we want to grow some delicious vegetables this year?
I am planning well rotted manure but what about the weeds if its not been well composted