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A friend has offered me the use of some of his land as an allotment. It used to be a riding arena so is just sand over hardcore. There is a plentiful supply of farm manure. Would a mix of the two be good enough to grow veg, albeit limited a very limited range?
I would not try in mix the sand within the bedding..but leave it as it is at the bottom and start growing the 'soil' level from that.You don't even need solid edges for your 'raised beds just mounds of 'stuff' in 'lasagne' like layers that will hold things together...particularly if you can get hold of some cardboard and add that like 'pasta sheets in your lasagne' beds It helps too your growing success if you give your beds (in spring-early summer) some Fish, blood and bone meal to give more 'variety' of nutrients ..and during summer 'lashings' of liquid seaweed when you do watering. Seaweed will give lots of all sorts of micronutrients and minerals as well as act as 'booster/stimulator' and gets those plants really going Other than that it is just water, water and water....and remember to oil the wheel barrow wheel..you don't want it to squeak, announcing how heavy you veg yield is ....makes people jealous...
successfully grew potatoes and pumpkins
Quotesuccessfully grew potatoes and pumpkins Did you take any photos of your beds with growth on?Strawberries don't tend to produce their best crop in first year...are you going to let them be in same bed for few years? If so....the soil in the beds will need good TLC...spuds and pumpkins both being VERY greedy crops taking every little bit of available goodness out. But don't load lot of fertilizer at once...it just results huge leafy strawberry plants and rubbish berries. Little bit of 'snap' every now and then during growing season will do and if you carry on mulching around the plants...that should keep the plants happy for longer term.....and strawberries DO like seaweed as well And little bit of relevant not but maybe not that useful info....Olden days old market gardeners used to mulch their strawberry beds with washed seaweed, making big bulk of their yearly income from sale of their berries.