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One piece of advice would be to start on part of the plot and expand slowly into the rest. If you try to do the whole plot in one go you will struggle to keep up with it and will struggle to find homes for all that lovely fruit and veg.

Retirement is not as quiet as you expect, you will wonder how you ever had time to work. Enjoy yourself and may your retirement be happy, healthy and long!

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It is a disgusting job isbn’t it, Ive been murdering all afternoon!

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Well your book arrived yesterday and when not actually gardening I’ve been reading, it is a very interesting read and well laid out.

It has got me back into the “zone” after so much dissapointment this year. I decided to put two of my veg beds to bed for the winter, they have been mulched with compost and one has cardboard on the other has black membrane on and I have decided to mulch out the badly kept grass paths through the winter, I can see I am going to need lots of cardboard.

The straw mulch I had used last year was harbouring a huge quantity of slugs so I raked most of it off and will compost it, it hadn’t broken down much and fed into the soil as I was led to believe it would be all the Permaculture artcles I had read.

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Wow I never realised that you could grow straight into manure. I had a delivery of 2 year old cow manure earlier this year, it is very gloopy sticky stuff, is it really ok to plant into that?

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I have ordered a copy of your book to help motivate me to draw a line under this season and start again. I’m guessing autumn is a good time to get going.

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