You know the old saying; 'Where there's muck there's brass' or 'There's gold in them there hills'. Well in my case where there's muck there's me putting it into bags for the allotment!
We have several farms in the vicinity of our house so every trip to the allotment now means stopping by a huge pile of well rotted horse manure and bagging up as much as we can fit into the car.
Mr R won't help me bag up the manure and is ready to laugh should there suddenly be a landslide and I get buried underneath!
Today we bagged up 6 bags ready to transport to the plot and most of these went into the new bed that we dug up today.
In order to cut down the amount of grass we have to dig through we have a couple of pieces of carpet and we rotate them around. The piece that we moved today yielded a lovely patch which we dug up without too much trouble. Tomorrow I will be putting in some tomatoes, peppers and chillis.
Apparently my courgettes are looking better than those on plots around mine. I think it is the tyres that keep the roots warmer and moister and being higher than ground level offers some protection from the elements. Most garages or tyre centres will be only too glad to give you old tyres.
I finally got the water butt up there too so we are really starting to feel right at home!
Today's pickings included some radishes, mint for the Jersey Royal potatoes and the first pieces of Rainbow Chard.
There is still so much to do but no rush and with a bit of warmer weather I will be spending more time up there.
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