Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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jacdaw Mar 2020 6:46pm, 19 Mar 2020 2,868 posts	0 jacdaw The slightly hippy seed company i usually buy from is currently overwhelmed with orders, and the alternative, equally slightly hippy company they suggested has also closed their website for a day or so. I ordered some basic seeds from a more conventional company.
Garfield Mar 2020 7:07pm, 19 Mar 2020 12,192 posts	0 Garfield I have seeds left over from last year...so they should be all right. Just need compost as our soil here is very poor.
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 2:46pm, 20 Mar 2020 17,124 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale 1¾ hours of digging liberates approx 5'x3' of heavy clay soil. It’ll be worth it in the end.
Wriggling Snake Mar 2020 2:49pm, 20 Mar 2020 25,907 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Cross Training...is this in the drop-down menus?
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 2:52pm, 20 Mar 2020 17,125 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale Certainly is. X-Train - Gardening
D2 Mar 2020 3:06pm, 20 Mar 2020 11,591 posts	0 D2 That looks really hard work
D2 Mar 2020 3:07pm, 20 Mar 2020 11,592 posts	0 D2 goes off to take photo of own garden........ back soon
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 3:22pm, 20 Mar 2020 17,130 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale It’s full of creeping buttercup and couch grasses. Trying to dig out all the rhizomes is the killer! Plus it’s still quite wet, so very heavy.
Fragile Do Not Bend Mar 2020 3:55pm, 20 Mar 2020 5,569 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Thankfully the no dig method is working for me.
Wriggling Snake Mar 2020 4:04pm, 20 Mar 2020 25,909 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Excellent, I have a large shrub to remove and just bought a pieris and a verburnum to replace it, a couple of hours there.....