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All the Details on This Year’s Women in Horticulture Lunch at Cultivate

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This year’s speaker, Meg Morrison, is an executive coach, facilitator, and speaker with more than 10 years of experience working with leaders across industries, including in the gardening sector.

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Hidcote pt. 2

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I am continuing my last post with more photos of Hidcote, this time focusing on the outer perimeter of the garden. Like most gardens, these areas were less formal in design. Along the outer fences, you get serene views of the English countryside with nary a building in sight.
One such vista occurs at the top of a long avenue called the “Long Walk”. This expanse of lawn surrounded by hornbeam hedges is a stark contrast to the previous garden rooms that are packed with plants. 
The angle of the hedges gives an optical illusion, making the avenue appear longer than it is. Once you reach the summit, an open gate leads to a view of the countryside –
One can choose to walk back down the way they came up or take a route back through “The Wilderness” which runs alongside The Long Walk. The Wilderness is a woodland area with winding grass pathways that meander through mature trees and densely planted shrubbery.
If you walk to the opposite side of the Long Walk, you will stroll through three distinct areas.
The Stream Garden –

The Bulb Slope –
The Rock Bank –
Other areas seen in my wanderings at Hidcote – The Beech Alley –
An impressive compost area –
And finally, this feature, which continues to elude me.  It must be the Garden Yard, although I remember it being in the midst of the garden rooms which are in a different location. So I’m not exactly sure what this area was called –
I hope you have enjoyed this tour of Hidcote. It was certainly a memorable event for me and I’d love to explore it again later in the summer months.
Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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Planning polytunnel/greenhouse – feedback

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I’ve been wanting to start some type of tunnel/enclosure to extend my growing season and possibly grow cold weather crops. I’m planning on building something that’s not considered “permanent” by the city.

However, I never really liked the look of the typical pole (metal/pvc) tunnels, plus has anyone priced pvc lately? I think I’m leaning towards something more timber frame looking, something I saw recently in this guy’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qowrj7JbeZs

Does anyone have any tips or foreshadowing about using a design like this? I have read some things about the rough corners of timbers wearing the 6mil poly early, so I plan on chamfering and looking into some sort of corner shielding to reduce friction on the poly.

Also, I know that the typical hood designs use those zig-zag poly lock wire things, but I think I would instead just opt for using long wood cauls to basically clamp the poly to the frame underneath. It will lead to some screws going through the poly, but I think that as long as the wood clamps the poly around it, it shouldn’t lead to any tearing around that hole.

Anyone else done this type of design and have any warnings or cautions?

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How to deal with landscape fabric?

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I’m a pretty novice gardener and I’m trying to fix up my mom’s property while using permaculture principles. The garden beds I’m starting with have a layer of bark on top, then a few inches of good dirt, then some layers of landscape fabric on top of the rest of the soil.

When planting this year, I just cut away a small hole for each plant so they could root in the rest of the soil. But the more I work in the soil, the more I just want to get rid of all the fabric all-together. The dirt above it is pretty good and lively, while the dirt below looks less good (kinda clay-ish in spots).

My big concern is that digging up the whole garden bed will disturb everything going on in the soil. Is there a way to deal with the fabric without disturbing the soil or should I just bite the bullet and dig it all out?

Thanks for the help 🙂

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