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Another Month Slips By at The Sustainable Smallholding

Another five weeks have elapsed since my last post, but with the days shortening, I once again find myself with time to share with you. Things are still busy, with the end of the beekeeping and vegetable growing season, and the start of the tree planting and wood harvesting season overlapping. Before I start posting on what I’m up to now, I thought that I would post a quick round up of  what I’ve been busy with over the past few weeks.

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Another busy day growing plants

Today was another successful day, with all of the jobs that I set myself, completed. Admittedly, I try not to overextend myself too much, but even so, I’m pleased with what I achieved. Two more beds re-orientated North  to South, and Comfrey root cuttings taken, to propagate more Comfrey for creating Guilds next Winter More details, and some photographs follow.

I also have some pictures of my bamboo showing signs of growth, and some new pictures of the Sweetcorn seedlings, and tree seeds, from recent posts

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Growing Sweetcorn is Child’s Play

I have been taking pictures of a batch of Sweetcorn seeds that I have been growing this week, and it occurred to me that Sweetcorn would be an ideal plant to use to help to  get children interested in growing food. If kept warm, it germinates quickly, the root and shoot grow quickly, it can be planted on the  surface of your compost, where it is visible at all times. Sweetcorn grows into a nice big plant, which is quite exciting, and the taste is superb.

The pictures and details follow.

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More Seed Soaking

Perhaps it’s the time of year, but my little control panel is telling me that a lot of people are still finding The Sustainable Smallholding Blog, whilst searching for information about seed soaking. As I have had quite a lot of seeds soaking over the past week, I thought that I’d take some more pictures, and expand on the two earlier articles that I have posted.

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