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Saturday, April 01, 2006
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IanP
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Lymington UK
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As the season is about to start I thought I would write a dairy entry about our pumpkin beds .We have been working on getting the soil level on all the patches raised and they are now about 8 inches above the normal soil level and I would now say that we have about 14 inches of root run .The advantage of raised beds is that when we water ,excess water runs freely away leaving plenty of available water but also plenty of air in the soil .The 1.5 t of manure for each 600/700 sq patch is now really working and full of worms .It was well worth sorting out the patches at the end of last season because now we have lovely fibrous soil in which all our pumpkins will love to grow in
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