At winter's end, in spring weather

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March, in like a lamb and out like a lion, I hope not! While we filmed this, it was pretending to be spring in 14°C, 57°F. But colder weather is returning soon, so I'm giving you glimpses of what's to come, while most of the garden is still empty.

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Filmed 5th March 2025 by Nicola Smith at Homeacres, Somerset UK. Mild oceanic climate, zone 8 and 51° north. We had just finished a run of six consecutive nights of -3 to -4°C, mid 20s F.

00:00 Introduction, including info on new products!
01:46 Transplants that have overwintered in greenhouse, including multisown radish
02:45 Compost used for strong growth - a mix of homemade and peat-free worm compost
03:13 I demonstrate how to sow direct, using a dibber - radish seeds https://www.gardenimports.co.uk/produ...
04:55 Other options for sowing direct at this time of year
05:13 Tomatoes - my recommended sowing dates, around 10th to 11th March this year.
05:23 Sowing according to the moon phases
06:00 Plants in the polytunnel - salad rocket, mustards Red Lace and Green Frills, and interplants of spring onions
07:23 Lettuce, Grenoble Red, and endives
07:50 Red Russian kale, with more interplants of spring onion
08:14 Frosty nights, fleece on plants
08:56 Reshaped beds and new wood chip on paths - benefits to path soil
10:09 Rhubarb, results of forcing
11:08 Rabbit damage to broad bean plants
11:43 Recently cut-down ash tree, with a bee nest in the trunk
12:42 Area being gradually converted from weedy meadow to beds, just reshaped and realigned
13:44 Purple sprouting broccoli, Santee variety
14:45 No dig bed prep - raking compost
15:54 Wild rocket transplanted two weeks previously, some mild frost damage
16:45 An unintentional trial of spring onions, under mesh
17:01 Weeding - little and often
17:27 Stored vegetables in the shed
18:41 Compost making in winter, low temperatures
19:51 Claytonia/winter purslane, in the ground all winter, uncovered
20:15 Coriander, under a cover of plant-based mesh https://www.crocus.co.uk/product/_/in...
20:45 Mid-October sowing of broad beans as green manure
21:05 Brussels sprouts under net against pigeons
22:02 Spring onions, with allium leaf miner massive damage, and garlic, so far ok!
22:55 Outro

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