Spinach is a fast growing crop and has been producing a harvest for several weeks now. On average we can take three complete cuts from each bed. This bed is on it second cut, so we will be sowing a follow on crop next week to take us into the autumn and through to early spring.
All our beetroot are sown in modules before being planted out through the biodegradable mulch. This eliminates weed competition (except for weed in the paths) and protects the roots from mice as they develop.
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Hi Phil,
Thanks for your recent comment on our own blog. I didn't mean to infer that organic growers would resort to approved chemicals as a first resort, but was rather describing my own, relatively inexperienced, reaction on seeing a damaging infestation, which was to act against what we say we believe in and to do something drastic to immediately alleviate the problem and that a justification to myself could be that it was an "organic-authorised" chemical and therefore OK.
Neither, on a more general level, would I want anyone to think that I was setting permaculture against organic gardening. Our own efforts are on a much smaller scale than your's, just learning how to provide food for the pair of us, so it's interesting to read how you're applying these principles on a much broader scale.
We like your own blog and have added it to our sidebar.
Best wishes
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