david
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Your certainly giving your sprouts plenty of room to grow on 32 x 18 inch spacing, 28 x 16 inch would be more typical in NI with sprouts planted on drills made up with fergy drill plough. Too wide may be worse than too close for sprouts, as you will end up with sprout plants resembling Christmas trees. You almost need a degree of inter-plant competition for sprouts, to get them to make height and space the buttons out a bit.
I would probably say to put all fert in at planting, I think that nitrogen leaching out is somewhat over played a bit - having all the nitrogen on at planting does make a difference in a dry year.
Will be interested to see if all these supermarkets have packs of veg for 19p selling on Christmas week again. De-valuing fresh produce then robbing folks on everything else in the shop.
Yes - plenty of cauli about, need a couple of nights hard frost to slow them up
I would probably say to put all fert in at planting, I think that nitrogen leaching out is somewhat over played a bit - having all the nitrogen on at planting does make a difference in a dry year.
Will be interested to see if all these supermarkets have packs of veg for 19p selling on Christmas week again. De-valuing fresh produce then robbing folks on everything else in the shop.
Yes - plenty of cauli about, need a couple of nights hard frost to slow them up