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Kit, Borys (5 September 2019). "Lily James to Join Carey Mulligan in Netflix Period Drama 'Dig' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019 . Retrieved 15 November 2019. This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: produce and product. Improve your English with Collins. Dear John, what a fascinating article and discourse. I went to Caythorpe Agricultural College during the 60’s to waste some (4 years) of my youth! And at that time we had a couple of fields that were ‘no-til’ trials and all cultivation was done, if at all, on the top 2 or 3 inches of soil just once per year. The idea being that any crop residue and subsequent fertiliser would be sufficient. The trial did not last long, there were weed problems, there were fertility problems, and as I remember we ended up having to spray some pretty nasty stuff (Gramoxone) on there to sort the problem out. The whole lot was then ploughed in. For breaking new ground to grow vegetables, I would suggest that the proven digging system is generally best employed if possible but a lot depends on the initial condition of the land. Labour saving in that no digging is required although this may be outweighed by the labour making the compost.

I wrote this article on no-dig gardening versus digging in 2017 for Home Farmer magazine, sadly no longer with us. Since there were a few comments on my proposed no-dig experiment in my last post, I thought it may be worth popping the article up here, slightly altered for the web. To Dig or Not to Dig? Look for tools with easy-to-hold grips. You can find ergonomic hand tools, either with the handle at a right-angle or with curved handles. You may find these more comfortable. His former employers try unsuccessfully to persuade Brown to work on a Roman villa they deem more important. They ignore Brown, who left school aged 12, when he suggests the mounds could be Anglo-Saxon rather than the more common Viking era. however as I’ve said on numerous occasions I’m not totally convinced about the no dig gardening so I wish to stay neutral although we do raised beds and open cultivation on our allotmentsThis was reported in the HDRA No-digging Report No 1 of 1969 produced by Lawrence D Hills. Apart from the Chase trial the rest of the report consisted of member’s experiences. N.B. Some of the no-diggers also reported fertility crashes after 4 to 7 years. My Conclusions Haring, Bruce (8 February 2021). "AARP The Magazine Sets Movies For Grownups Nominees, Adds TV Categories". Deadline. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021 . Retrieved 20 February 2021. There was little difference between the two methods for the first three years although legumes and root crops did not do as well on the no-dig system other crops such as cucurbits and tomatoes performed significantly better.

Rife, Katie (13 January 2021). "Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes delve for meaning in the sallow period drama The Dig". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021 . Retrieved 14 January 2021. If you garden sitting down or in a wheelchair, use a long-handled trowel or cultivating tool to dig at ground level. A full-length garden fork is helpful to turn over the soil with minimal bending. It requires less strain than a spade for this task. Because the soil is not inverted, weed seeds waiting to germinate are not brought to the surface so weeds should be less of a problem although the plot will still be susceptible to weed seeds blown in on the wind. This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: scarce and scarcely. Improve your English with Collins.Did Dig Digging has a repetitive, jaunty rhythm and rhyming scheme, which encourages readers to maintain a fast and upbeat pace making the delivery of the book all the more thrilling. Typically, no-dig systems involve the addition of 5cm of compost onto the growing beds annually. An average 250M2 (10 rods) allotment plot would require 12.5 cubic metres of finished compost each year. That’s a very large amount of compost. The system is usually combined with close-spaced planting and mulching to avoid bare ground. All kinds of large and noisy machines feature in this bright book, with a bouncily rhythmic text which young mechanics will love -- and soon learn off by heart! * Scottish Book Trust * Diggin’ Up the Heart” by Brandon Flowers is a song about finding the strength to move on after a relationship has ended.

I’m just a rookie but I’m of the opinion that, if you like digging, then go dig – digging definitely offers its own pleasure and satisfaction. But, if you don’t want to dig, then grow green manure and kill it by cutting it and covering it. Annually the soil is dug over to at least one spit deep in the autumn and left in large lumps. In the winter the freezing and thawing action breaks down these lumps into a finer consistency. In the spring this is further broken down with a cultivator and raked to create a fine tilth for seed sowing and planting. The sub-soil is then broken up with a fork before manure or compost is laid in the trench above the forked-open sub-soil. This will percolate down into the sub-soil, encouraging worms and micro-flora to convert the sub-soil into top soil. The removed top soil is then replaced above it to dig the next trench. Further mulch can be applied during the growing season. Repeating this process annually will keep your soil fertile. Digging the soil is essential for good plant growth. If the soil condition is poor organic matter can be added at the same time as digging.

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Over the first winter, I planted grazing rye and winter tares in part of the plot and it grew very well. A few weeks before the bed was needed, I cut it all down and covered it with brown mulch and permeable membrane. The green manure showed no signs of re-growing and everything my wife planted did well – but she still complained that the soil felt ‘hard’ just below the surface (our soil is clay).