Our task for Tuesday's horticultural volunteering session was to fill our Nigel polytunnel with salad. We had already stripped out the 340 tomato vines and associated basil plants that had grown there through the season, and weeded the edges, so after boradforking and hoeing the beds, we dibbed holes at about 12cm apart, in 4 lines down each of seven soaker-hoses, and planted about 2800 salad seedlings (mostly brassicas such as rocket, mustard, pak choi) between 10am and 3pm. A great effort by our team of Tuesday volunteers who deserve a big thank you. This is our second polytunnel of salad to see us through the winter, we also have an outdoor patch of about the same size, much of which was direct sown in August.
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