Hello,
I was just reading up on growing cauliflowers and found that i should have had my brassica bed all prepared and manured last autumn and be liming now.. obviously i haven't done this and now have some lovely seedlings and don't have access to a time machine.. :0( Is there any way to still grow healthy brassicas? The plot hasn't been heavily cultivated in the last year as a car accident stopped play last spring (just whiplash but it completely stopped me doing anything vigorous for all of last summer) and is quite a good loam which bizarrely seems clayey when wet and sandy when dry with a chalky clayey bedrock and grows a vigorous mix of nettles and brambles when unattended and fumatory when disturbed.. should I a) add nothing and hope for the best, b) add lime on it's own c) add chicken manure d) add chicken manure now and lime is a few weeks d) add garden compost e) add garden compost and lime later or f) add everything (leaving lime as late as possible)?
Many thanks :0)
Becca
I was just reading up on growing cauliflowers and found that i should have had my brassica bed all prepared and manured last autumn and be liming now.. obviously i haven't done this and now have some lovely seedlings and don't have access to a time machine.. :0( Is there any way to still grow healthy brassicas? The plot hasn't been heavily cultivated in the last year as a car accident stopped play last spring (just whiplash but it completely stopped me doing anything vigorous for all of last summer) and is quite a good loam which bizarrely seems clayey when wet and sandy when dry with a chalky clayey bedrock and grows a vigorous mix of nettles and brambles when unattended and fumatory when disturbed.. should I a) add nothing and hope for the best, b) add lime on it's own c) add chicken manure d) add chicken manure now and lime is a few weeks d) add garden compost e) add garden compost and lime later or f) add everything (leaving lime as late as possible)?
Many thanks :0)
Becca
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