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here I'm talking about sewing and
showing you sowing and planting into
underdog beds with compost on top and
I'm just lightly raking the compost to
break up any lumps and Kreator enough
fine tilth between the lumps for sowing
seeds into in this case it's going to be
carrots and there's still a few big
lumps on top fuel than they would like
and because it's dry I'm happy to just
work on the bed a bit to break up these
lumps with my feet feet are brilliant
garden tool and then the surface is nice
and smooth for drawing drills and sewing
carrots into I'm drawing out a drill
using my copper hoe and into this
composted surface with the firm soil
underneath I'm going to drop some carrot
seeds it's sometimes said that you you
shouldn't so carrot into composted soil
actually use fine you can do that
because the carrot germinates in the
compost and then sends its root down
into the undisturbed soil below and we
can see when it grows that it's not been
bothered by the composter to make it
Fork and also I'm going to sew a few
radish seed here the idea being that the
radish mark the rows of the germinating
carrot seeds so that the carrots are
more visible because the carrots take
quite a long time to come up the radish
being very fast to germinate help the
gardener to see whether carrot seeds are
sown so the roads are now all nicely
soon and I'm just pushing the compost
back over the drills so the seed is
covered
not too deep but deep enough that it'll
stay moist and now I'm working on the
drills just to firm the compost back in
place over the seeds and that will help
to keep them moist while they're
germinating so here rather than sowing
seeds direct I'm planting plants so it's
some plants I've already raised in the
greenhouse in modules the bed is ready
it's got some nice compost on top which
I put on a couple of months ago and I'm
going to dip holes using my homemade
dipper in fact made from a spade handle
and it's shaped at the end to fit the
module plug and I'm using it to make
little holes in the bed and they're
about nine or ten inches apart the idea
being then that the lettuce have plenty
of room to grow while they're growing
I'm going to start picking their outer
leaves I just pick off the outer leaves
over a long period so therefore I'm
giving them quite a wide spacing very
similar to if I was going to be growing
them four hearts so now I'm putting in
these plug plants which I've raised in
module trays they're small lettuces
which are six weeks old in this case
sometimes they can be four weeks old it
depends on the time of year this is like
winter still very early spring so
they've been growing quite slowly in
cool temperatures in the greenhouse and
I've got three different varieties here
which I'm going to make a pretty pattern
of in the bed there's some green cause
and now I'm planting some red cause and
I'm popping them in on the deep side
really because that helps them to be
more sturdy they can have fleece on top
so I'll help protect them a bit from
being blown around by winds and even
under the fleece and also when you bury
plants a little bit more deeply any stem
on the plant then is buried and you end
up with a nice sturdy plant
and you can see there's not a lot of
compost on these module routes but
there's enough to have got these plants
going and I'm confident that they will
put up with whatever the weather throws
at them helped by the fleece on top so
this fleece is covering some plants
which I planted here two weeks ago and
they were module race plants from the
greenhouse which I put in and then
covered with the fleece and you can see
how they're very happy to grow with
fleece sitting directly on top of them
there's pea plants here cabbage and
further along we have beetroot plants
and further on there some onions and
shallots so the fleece is keeping the
cold wind off the plants and helping
them to grow for further information
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