Sure enough, Dean drove up at 10.50am yesterday so we were loaded up and on our way by 11am on the dot.
The route changed, we went to B&Q first, where it being still Winter, there was lots of stock on fence building materials. She picked up eight of the heavy metal fence supports which have a long base spike, a pack of 4 of the 2.5 metre wooden posts and two extra large bags of compost.
We dropped this at the allotments, took the broken fencing to the local dump and returning to the site, she put three enormous builder's rubble bags into the car then they drove back up to the gate and filled them with wood chips.
Three trips later, she had enough to top up three of those huge raised beds she made last autumn.
Each time she goes out there she takes buckets into which she puts our food waste. Egg shells, banana skins, orange peel, avocado shells and stones is what's in these waste buckets, we don't have a lot of stuff to throw away because we eat everything!
These seven huge boxes are being filled with : weeds, dead leaves, nettles, tree and rose clippings cut up into small pieces, shredded paper, torn up cardboard, food waste which are all mixed up together and topped off with a thick layer of wood chips.
This mixture will be allowed to rot down and she will use these beds for special things like melons and Persian cucumbers.
Oh yes, you did read that right! She's grown some cracking melons, mighty sweet they were too!
And if Spring continues to give us this fine weather, then we are in for a bumper crop of everything.
But, of course, we'll need 'a little bit' of rain soon!
GeeGee Parrot.
February 23rd, 2019.
The route changed, we went to B&Q first, where it being still Winter, there was lots of stock on fence building materials. She picked up eight of the heavy metal fence supports which have a long base spike, a pack of 4 of the 2.5 metre wooden posts and two extra large bags of compost.
We dropped this at the allotments, took the broken fencing to the local dump and returning to the site, she put three enormous builder's rubble bags into the car then they drove back up to the gate and filled them with wood chips.
Three trips later, she had enough to top up three of those huge raised beds she made last autumn.
Each time she goes out there she takes buckets into which she puts our food waste. Egg shells, banana skins, orange peel, avocado shells and stones is what's in these waste buckets, we don't have a lot of stuff to throw away because we eat everything!
These seven huge boxes are being filled with : weeds, dead leaves, nettles, tree and rose clippings cut up into small pieces, shredded paper, torn up cardboard, food waste which are all mixed up together and topped off with a thick layer of wood chips.
This mixture will be allowed to rot down and she will use these beds for special things like melons and Persian cucumbers.
Oh yes, you did read that right! She's grown some cracking melons, mighty sweet they were too!
And if Spring continues to give us this fine weather, then we are in for a bumper crop of everything.
But, of course, we'll need 'a little bit' of rain soon!
GeeGee Parrot.
February 23rd, 2019.
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