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[carlseawolf]

lauren s , I'm glad to see by your blog i'm not the only person seiving my plot of stones.

[carlseawolf]

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Hi and welcome Carl ;D

Your plot looks great, good luck with keeping the marestail at bay. Sounds like a good system ;)

Anyway enjoy the nut house....... 8) ;D

[Lauren S]

I'm glad to see by your blog i'm not the only person seiving my plot of stones.

Ha ha, must be a Devonian thing  ;D  ;)  ;D

[jesssands]

Hi Carl,
Welcome to A4A.
Looking at your photos I am thinking that your plot is behind the new houses they built where the old laundry used to be. Now I'm not sure if your plot belongs to one of the houses there? OR when I walked up around the old railway track over christmas, looked over I could see someone had been working on cultivating an area. Maybe nothing to do with them houses at all.
I am in Combe Martin, But I lived in Ilfracombe before that. Have you always lived in Ilfracombe??
I love to try and grow stuff in the garden here. Its only a lil patch but I do try. I have a little bit of everything in it.

Maybe see you  in the chat one evening this week??

[carlseawolf]

hi jessands ,
My plot is behind the new houses and can be seen from the railway track and is owned by the council but association run.
  I have lived in the town for 20 years and 10 of that was in slade valley rd  where the entrance to the plots are before moving into town.
I had a look at where you have your plot to on the members map and i was up around that area about a month ago at knapp down farm.

[thifasmom]

The beds are 12" deep and the long one is 25' by 4' and the short ones are 13' by 4' made from gravel boards.
The plastic lining is covering the bottom half of the long bed and has a drainage hole in one corner that is about 4" off the ground so the marestail can't grow into the bed and allow water to get out.
 The plastic is a perminate measure as the marestail is still in the ground and spreading to neighbouring plots due to the previous tenants not doing much before i took over so it's in the paths.
  To what i am growing that would be most things , they include carrots,parsnips,cabbages , onions ,caulis ,pots and beans

thanks for the answers sounds like a win win solution, good luck and wishing you a great harvest for 2009 :D