Back to one of my gardening posts.
When ever we get a dryish day. I get my trusty garden fork and go to the oldest fym pile and fill buckets of black gold.
Then I go to my repurposed plastic oil tanks/raised beds and weed and top them up with well rotted fym:
I like the winter rains to work the ground and old Mr and Mrs Robin Redbreast can help themselves to a chunky worm breakfast if they are cold and feeling peckish.
One bucket of fym in the raised bed.
I dug and forked and filled and carried and spread ten buckets of fym for this raised repurposed bed.
I have at least twenty four raised vegetables beds. Some are made with old wooden decking planks and some are old plastic baths, fish boxes and old heating oil tanks.
Now I am in my sixties and our autumns, winters and springs are becoming wetter. I believe raised beds work much better for drainage, deeper soil and you are gardening at least at knee height.
I often say it on here. You don't have to have a garden or allotment to grow your own organic vegetables. All you need is something to put your soil or fym and compost in.
Anyone else topping up their raised beds at the moment?
Hard work Dave, but worth it.
ReplyDeleteWe inherited a raised bed outside the front porch when we moved in here. P noticed this week that the wood used to build the sides has rotted away so he has been carefully removing it all trying not to disturb the plants too much. It has been a lot of work for him so far trying to cut and prepare replacement lengths of wood before this spell of dry, still weather turns again. Keeps him busy!
Raised beds have really grown on me in recent years JayCee. Will you be going collecting seaweed or getting some well rotted fym? Poultry manure in a bucket is also organic and free from weeds and you can buy it from garden centres. It is hard work but it's worth it!
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