14 January 2012

Black gold: Feed the soil feed the plants!

Had an excellent day bagging and moving well rotted horse manure (26 bags). Am lucky to have some good family friends with a horse, so they have a very large pile of well rotted manure mixed with leaf litter. This as you can imagine is like black gold, so digging this into the plot is going to give my veggies a real boost.

A large pile of poo

Was a very cold night with temps well below zero, so am a bit concern about the fruit trees starting to bud. With this in mind have fleeced them for some protection as the next few days it will be very cold.

Winter lettuce

Cold minus 2

Cold frozen plot

Frosty winter chard

Frost covered onions

Ice patterns on greenhouse glass

4.6 degrees in the polycarbonate greenhouse

2 comments:

Margaret said...

Well done, Ben. We've been shovelling manure and digging too this weekend. I'll be blogging about it later

Ben Scoble said...

Excellent, just tweeted you funnily enough! I wait to read you blog. Just thinking about writing a blog post about non-chemical pest protection.