Dyfi Valley
Gardening Course Week 3

Course photographs by Teresa Walters

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03.01Mice ate the beans under the closh

03.01Mice ate the beans under the plastic cloche

03.02Replanted broad beans

03.02 Replanted broad beans

03.03 organic waste in trench for legumes (mange touts+runner beans)

03.03 organic waste in trench for legumes (mange touts+runner beans)

03.04 birds pecked up the onion sets

03.04 birds pecked up the onion sets

03.05 trench for 2nd early potatoes

03.05 trench for 2nd early potatoes

03.06 earth over manure to keep away from potatoes

03.06 Earth over fresh manure to separate from potatoes

03.07 potatoes in

03.07 potatoes in

03.08 shallow drills for interplanted turnips and radishes

03.08 Shallow drills for intercropped parsnips and radishes

03.09 2-3 turnips and 2-3 radishes 10cm apart

03.09 A cluster of parsnip seeds are planted 8 inches apart with radish in the spaces.

03.10 chopping brambles

03.10 chopping brambles

03.11 a fine tilth on top

03.11 A fine tilth of soil on top of the parsnips

03.12 discouraging pests and marking out

03.12 Using brambles to stop birds dust bathing on our parsnips