brews FTW
Just last week i was making very little sense about social networking and gardening, but it then that it hit me…. if you ask your friends if they will give up their saturday and help you spread 1.5 tonnes of shite on your newly built raised beds, then they will probably, and with good reason, tell you do one. However if you do a Facebook thingy and invite everyone to a ‘Shite Shovelling Party’ then before you know it half the city will be round wanting to get in on the web2.0 flash-mob zanyness….
1.5 tonnes of organic matter from new smithfield market in Openshaw was dumped to be distributed on my new beds by about 0.3 tonnes of hungover organic matter. Work was slow and ramshackle but that was as much to do with the foreman not really knowing what he was doing as much as any unwillingness from the press-ganged.
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- very little in the way of brass
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- brews FTW
I have a feeling that i have perhaps left it slightly too late for putting compost down and i haven’t really had enough soil in which to mix in with it, so i do fear that it might be a little to rich and cause the plants to bolt…. but only time will tell.
Plans have been drawn up, beds have been allocated, named ranked and there is some idea of what will go into them.. i’d be lying if i told you i wasn’t nervous – you see last year my corn got a right going over by a mob of fat bastard squirrels, the carrots never bothered doing anything and the slugs ravaged my… i’m not even sure what it originally was the slugs left so little of it. This year though, this year needs to be different….
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