JohnGalway
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- Location
- Connemara, Ireland
Hard looking ground but soil looks good, I'll be interested to see how the Pink Fir Apple does.
They're not supposed to yield very well, but meant to taste good, think I only planted 4 or 5 of those, we'll see how they go. Next year I'm going to get sample packs of a few different varieties. Yeah the soil is good, there was spuds sowed there donkeys years ago and a stand of bracken growing in it since. I cleared all the roots out a few years back but left it idle then and nettles colonised the patch. One side I cleared out most of the nettle roots and the top of the sod which I will compost hopefully. The other side I just shook the earth off and put the top of the sod aside, want to see what'll happen with different ways of doing things. You can see the diagonal break in the middle, protruding bedrock! So there's only just a few inches of soil really. It's also very very dry at the moment, no rain of note in a long time and none forecast this week. If I threw silica gel pouches on there I'd be adding moisture