Mudketeers diary- 17th April 2019

Eggbox growing

I decided to experiment this year with starting seedlings off in egg boxes. I bought 50 of them off Ebay and they worked out at 12p each. To give greater depth to the container I closed the box and then cut out the top. I half filled the egg box with compost and dropped a seed in each cell adding one for luck. More compost was added and then I watered well. The seedlings pictured are a yellow podded mangetout called ‘Golden Sweet’. When I come to plant out the plants will be well watered and the box should almost fall to pieces so I can get the plants out easily and transplant.

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Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.

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