Small Garden May 2023

Fascinating changes in just eight weeks of spring. See my advice for maintaining the garden weed and pest free, quite simply.

No dig, no fertilisers or slug pellets. I weed often yet very little. And cut the grass edges, the hedges

This is the video of 8 weeks earlier, planting on 20th March.
https://youtu.be/1EPI96bK5I8

00:00 Introduction
01:23 The weather this spring
02:15 A look at some bare ground, ready for succession planting - cauliflower now cleared, and I harvest the remaining multisown radish which has some insect damage
03:38 Multisown leeks ready to be planted, Tornado and Mammoth, and some dill
04:22 Beetroot, variable growth due to proximity of shed and slug damage
04:55 Lettuce plants, also with slug damage - I demonstrate picking outer leaves
06:17 Nettle plants surrounding the bed, soon to be cut
06:50 Multisown onions, Globo
06:55 Using fleece for spring plantings
07:18 Potatoes Charlotte and cordon tomatoes, and how to protect them from frost
09:58 Peas on a teepee
11:09 Brassicas under mesh, against insects and pigeons
11:34 Edging, and how to keep it tidy
12:48 Spinach Medania, starting to flower
14:26 Carrots, good germination
14:59 Strawberries and sorrel
15:23 Tayberry where the fig tree was, and new smaller fig tree, with figs on
15:56 Some examples of succession planting
16:54 Outro

Detailed growing info on all the vegetables mentioned in this video in my Growing Guides: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/how-to-grow/

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