The secret to growing carrots is to keep the seeds damp during & just after germination.
In hot weather, I sown then water well and put a plank over them. Lovely weather for carrots this year haven’t had to use the planks 
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Thanks Wozza, maybe I should try again! Any thoughts on my curly kale question above?
Yes, no problem plant in the same bed. The other plants weren’t in long.
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Thanks!
Me again 
I, perhaps stupidly, bought 50 leek seedlings and don’t have a lot of space left! My question is, if I interplant them is there anything I should avoid? And how close to other things can I plant them? I have gaps in my chickpeas, I think something dug them up as there was little crop circles in the earth. I read they don’t like to be near garlic so presumably as they are the same family no good for leeks??
If space is problematic you could
Multi plant say 3-4 close together they will be smaller and thinner but still have a harvest decent harvest.
Or fot them about all over the garden where you have gaps.
Or plant in buckets / containers.
Seeing the amount of land you have start another plot cutting out grass sods and plant directly, just titivate the soil you plant into, not the whole plot as this will damage the soil structure for next season (this is what I would do, I’m envious of so much land).
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Thanks Wozza! We currently have black plastic over about 4m2 and we are finally renovating our guest bedroom so have put the crappy carpet down on another area that used to be veg garden years ago when I started, so that’s another 10m2. Just need to wait a bit. I think the black plastic I’ll pop some more butternut through as I finally got some to sprout (I think I originally did it too early, the ones I chucked in to direct sew are doing well!). I found a corner I’ve squeezed 17 in, plus 3 or 4 at the end of a row. Will try your multi sew idea, only 30 left
Wow! I’m impressed! I’m SO sick of seedlings and pots all over my terrace but as I’m trying to make a proper go of it this year I probably need to keep planting stuff too! I actually bought a seedblock maker last week, made some slightly dodgy ones which I’ve planted some chard in. Got it from aliexpress for 6e and hoping it means I can get rid of all my little plastic pots and gave less mess around!
Sorry meant to ask, what are they all and who is Baz??
Baz, aka Bazoches, have a very long history… Seed given to me by my neighbour, given to her by a woman that lived in Bazoches and saved seeds from her lettuce plants year on year. They are well adapted to our local climate, surprise surprise. I do the same, keeping seeds from the plants. They are a sort of feuille de chêne / oak leaf lettuce, pick and grow or let them bulk up. I prefer the pick and grow method to prolong production and gain precious space.
The others are Swede, beetroot and another type of lettuce called pain de sucre a heart lettuce. Not showing in the photos but sown today curly kale, kohlrabi and Nero di Toscana kale.
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Why not, doesn’t everyone want some lettuce called Baz?? I’ll pm you my address.
I also to pick and come again, I usually buy 12 seedlings about 3 times a year but really should grow from seed again. I plant as they say but there always seems to be so much elwasted space around them, maybe due to pick and come again? How far do you plant?
Spring through to Autumn I only grow about 4-6 plants as have an abundance of all sorts of other tasty options, I dot them around the garden leaving them a foot sometimes 8 to 10’´ growing space, basically the same size of a full grown lettuce. In late Summer I grow more 10-15 plants for Winter early Spring crops, put a row covering over them during bad or windy weather conditions.
Happily send you some Baz 
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Advice needed on Apricot tree. We bought this tree either nov 22 or very early in 23. In it’s first season it was covered in blossom and grew very quickly into an excellent looking tree. This year no blossom not much growth and now half the tree is looking very sad and dropping its leaves and basically looks like it’s dying. The same thing happened to our pomegranate tree earlier this year, half of it is now dead. So what do we do? We think it’s root rot from too much rain. There’s no sign of any fungus on the tree. The bark is split a little in places but that could be quite natural. If we cut the dying half off it’s going to look very lopsided so either we cut the whole tree hard back or just leave it and see what happens?
harvest
My onion and garlic foliage is dieing back - is it time to pull them up? I did pull one of each yesterday and the onion is smaller than the garlic…
What do I have to do when I’ve pulled them up, cutting foliage, cleaning and storage?
Nice looking spuds 
What do you do with them all???
Put some photo up
The garlic if soft neck should be ready by now probably hard neck too???
Onions if haven’t problems with rust, leaf miner etc let them grow until half of them have started to fall over.
Garlic, « this is what I do » pull easing out with a trowel, letting dry for 3weeks to a month in dry airyated place. Then you can cut the stems etc and store, same with onions 
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