propagation – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.11 44677425 Making a Hotbed in my Polytunnel http://sustainablesmallholding.org/making-hotbed-polytunnel/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/making-hotbed-polytunnel/#comments Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:44:04 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4124 I have been intrigued by the idea of a hotbed for years, but the trigger for this project was reading ‘Hot Beds’ by Jack First. This book is a great little resource, packed full of information on how to make a hotbed, and what to grow in one once made. Having put up a decent […]

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Growing Rice in the UK? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-rice-in-the-uk/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-rice-in-the-uk/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:41:42 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4080 In 2014 I’m goint to try growing rice in the UK, and the following post describes why, and how I’m going to do it. I’m sure that it has been tried by somebody, somewhere, but I have no idea if anybody has made it work yet. It’s not something that I’ve ever come across before, […]

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Sowing Seeds and Compost http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sowing-seeds-and-compost/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sowing-seeds-and-compost/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:08:31 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3823 Like many people here in the UK I’ve been sowing seeds. I give myself extra work by growing almost all of my early plants inĀ  modules. This keeps my plants away from slugs, voles, birds, and the worst of the weather, and allows me to give the optimum tmperature for germination using electric propagators. In […]

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Polyculture Update. February 2013 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-february-2013/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-february-2013/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:42:50 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3745 I wanted to write a short post to keep up to date with my vegetable/grain polyculture experiments. The overall aims and objectives are described in my vegetable/grain polyculture design, but the page is really a number of linked projects. This post updates a couple of those polyculture projects. Grain, Clover, and Bean Polyculture The main […]

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Seed Sowing, Soaking Seeds, and Compost Tea http://sustainablesmallholding.org/seed-sowing-soaking-seeds-and-compost-tea/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/seed-sowing-soaking-seeds-and-compost-tea/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:23:15 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3618 I like to use compost tea to soak seeds, and to water seeds in when planting, especially in modules. At this time of year the temperature is too low to create a decent compost tea, so how do we achieve the same results? Soaking Seeds I pre -germinate all of my larger seedsĀ  by soaking […]

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