I swear by the bucket of poultry manure:
It's weed free and full of nitrogen and the plants and vegetables love it. It's a lot easier to sprinkle than piking and wheelbarrowing fym. Hungry vegetables like onions need lots of feeding.
I have a big pile of fym all piled up and covered with a black plastic tarpaulin. I will start spreading it on the soil surface in September and let the worms 🪱 and winter rains take it down.
Remember the winter onions sets we planted last September? Some of them are ready to harvest and we will plant something in their place like leafy greens like lettuce, spinach or cabbage.
"I swear by the bucket of poultry manure"... Feckin' feck feck, dis is a feckin' bucket of feckin' chicken shit pellets!
ReplyDeleteYou have definitely been to Ireland YP.😃
ReplyDeleteI've planted 2 onions that sprouted. Probably not going to get much of a harvest 😅
ReplyDeleteI dunno Linda. They are certainly worth a try. You could sow Spring onions now.
DeleteOnions for tea!
ReplyDeleteWe're on butties for tea JayCee. Some nice pastrami and West Cork Buffalo cheese 🧀. Summer ☀️ is on the way I hope.
ReplyDeleteMy onions are not a good as yours, but I stopped using chicken poo pellets because next door encourages foxes into her garden, I don't want them in ours. I use fish, blood and bone, which is a good organic alternative. It's been much drier here, I'm hoping the coming heat wave will get mine to swell.
ReplyDeleteYes Marlene a very sensible decision to make. They will be ready to harvest when they are ready. Gardening seems to be one step forwards one step backwards. I think that's why we love it so much.
ReplyDeleteI do miss my allotment x
ReplyDeleteSo do I John. I have my own veg plot. But I miss people and the camaraderie you get with allotments.
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