Oh, the SHAME
AST YEAR, I wrote about spring seedling production using a ‘hot frame’, which is an ordinary garden bed in which a buried layer of heat-generating compost mix warms the top soil beneath a small glass frame or plastic dome.
So imagine my surprise when, around the same time the article was published, all my tomato, capsicum and eggplant propagation failed.
Turned out, the top-soil was full of viable seeds from my habit of burying food scraps. These germinated in the perfect conditions well ahead of
