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If you’re feeling lazy in future, you can try just putting a layer of leaves you collect in the autumn on top of where you want seeds to grow, preferably just before it rains as they then won’t blow away. Just leave them until March when the worms have mostly done their job, then grow a quick mustard cover unless you want to sow something in March or early April – by mid april, you can harvest all the mustard and you have a beautiful, crumbly topsoil to sow seeds in. I successfully sowed clumps of onions and banana shallots in situ on that prepared soil this spring and they both grew beautifully………this autumn, I’m trying it on one whole bed to sow parsnips, onions and carrots next spring. Hopefully it will work just as well…..
Rhys