22nd November 2022 - The Manure Has Arrived!
Wahey, under that white sheet is a pile of muck!
In order to get the whole load of muck onto our newly created staging area we needed to take some that had spilled on the road to other parts - notice the dark colour of the soil in the raised beds in the centre of the picture and the bit of land in front of them. Also, some was liberally distributed onto our gooseberries. We had to improvise a bit to stop this manure from invading the new terrace and getting on top of the white door… but all in all it’s now good to go.
You can see that there is a big pile of weeds in front of the square raised beds, what is going on there then? Shouldn’t that pile be in the compost bins?
Yet another perspective from down by the cabbages. This manure will just lay on top of the soil, giving extra protection for the soil, suppressing weeds, and providing some good stuff for the worms to take down into the soil. We could’ve dug it in, but we would definitely disturb all the creatures in the soil, this is a good no-dig option. We sorted the soil already with weeds, this is now improving the soil… you know what they say, “if you take care of the soil…”
