Anybody else working on their winter garden?

[ian cameron dromore]

18. Soil is the key

Clay surprisingly is full of nutrients but you need a lot of other material to break it up. Sand works great as it stops the clay binding together again. For a veg plot 4 foot by 13 foot i added 2 bags of sand (approx 40 kg). Fork this in with additional compost and you should be set. Just ensure you have enough depth for the roots, i.e. dig up the soil quite deep (two spade depths) and also add height with whatever wood you can make a box out of. i used old scrap planks lying around garden.

I haven't tried growing Onions from seeds but just buy the bags from the cheapest place I can, I planted Onions last year and still had some of them for Xmas dinner. (Even found some in the ground that survived winter as I was digging over the beds getting ready for the new season.

Good luck with it and if you have any queries get back to me.