Growing Vegetables
Potato Part of the Solanaceae family which includes Potato, Tomato, Peppers (sweet and hot), Aubergine.... Tomato, Peppers, Aubergine, Solanaceae. | Manure Organic matter, usually from cattle, or horses (in other words, vegetarians). Full of nutrients for your soil and the plants that ... Organic | Green Manure These plants are grown to nourish and protect the soil rather than in their own right. Once grown they are dug back into the soil,... sheet composting |
Thinning
The removal of seedlings is known as
thinning. You can do it more than once as the plants grow, say in the case of carrots, parsnips, beetroot. If you don’t do it then the seedlings struggle to survive as there is not enough water, light or nutrients for them all.