oh no what have I done!

[Snadger]

Love the challenge too Sue, so now with my new half plot currently undug and my old half plot part way ready for the spring. have a few little questions if I may................ I am a newbie.

I have decided on a bed system (think I am the only one on the site to have opted for this) (it is a very very small site).

Any way quetions are from reading etc root veg such as carrots and parsnips dont like beds manured recently before sowing, how recently is recently? If I manure a bed now can I plant carrots and parsnips in the spring? If not can I use compost instead?

Also from reading I believe some veg in the brasica family like the bed "limed" what does this mean I know you have to buy a substance to add to the soil but what for?

sorry such silly questions

I wouldn't sow carrots in a bed in Spring that had been manured in Autumn/Winter. Carrots require a sandy loam, manured two seasons ago, although you could add an inert soil conditioner like coir, or old grow bag compost.
Liming (usually a handful of Hydrated lime to the square metre) is usually carried out in the Autumn/Winter on the proposed brassica bed only. It is added to deter clubroot which doesn't like Alkali soils and to raise the PH for brassica's which do. Do a soil Ph test first, or ask around because naturally alkaline soils may not need it!

[Percy T]

Thanks Snadger.

Will keep a couple of bed for carrots etc and a couple for brassica's