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What's your plan with that? Do you have a ready supply of well-rotted manure or will you chuck down fresh and hope it rots enough by the spring?
After neglecting our plot completely for the second year running I'm hoping I'll have a bit more free time (now I've got wedding and child-birth out of the way) and am considering trying the latter. Haven't really got a decent composting set up yet as that's also on my to-do list.
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I don’t have a supply of manure yet, once this year’s crops have been harvested I will make some wood borders/vaguely raised beds (wood has been scrounged in advance). The plan then is to start with spent compost from my work that I can take for free. I tend to drive in once a week so will take a load of rubble sacks and fill then once a week then deposit them. I also make my own compost which is food waste/grass cuttings/chicken manure and bedding. So will add that but there’s not huge quantities of it. Occasionally can get access to FYM or anaerobic digestate off folks I know. Above all I don’t want to pay for anything, cos I’m tight and it just seems a bit unnecessary.
Tonts
Haha! That would make me feel less bad but I’m afraid it’s my own poor vegetable husbandry. It’s one of the reasons I’m trying to turn everything to no dig this autumn. The no-dig bed gave me 50 perfect huge onions last year. This one’s just been swamped by weeds and slugs.