Topping Up The Repurposed Oil Tanks/Raised Beds With FYM.

One of my tv gardener heroes was Geoffrey Smith and I often still watch his gardening videos on good old YouTube.  Here are two gardening quotes by him:

"Put the brown end in the soil, the green end above it , and you're in with a much better chance."

"If I am depressed,  or I think the world's  a filthy place, I just go and look at a flower".

Geoffrey like myself came from Northern England and he believed in hard graft and forking over the ground and leaving the rough clods for the Winter frosts and rain to break them down and make lovely friable soil.

My gardening digging habits have evolved to the Irish climate.  Ireland gets its fair share of gales and very wet winters.  But we rarely get the snow and frost like they get in the north of England.

I am 62 this December and I still grow some crops like new potatoes in the ground.  But in recent times I have been repurposing containers like plastic baths, heating oil tanks, Belfast sinks, rear wheel tractor tyres, mussel and fish crates and IBC tanks...

They give me a lot deeper depth of growing medium and I am gardening at waist or knee height.  I am not no dig and I climb on top of them and dig them over after a crop is harvested. 

The weather is very good this spring and summer.  I took the black plastic cover off the dung heap and filled up my weeding big bucket 🪣(tree plant pot) with fym and filled up some of my vacant plastic raised beds:

Topped up raised beds.  Already for next spring.  The fym contained a lot of fat juicy brandlings worm.  They reminded me of coarse fishing days when I would use such worms 🪱 to lure Perch and other fish to the hook.  

Fishermen are the watchdogs of our waters and gardeners and allotment holders monitor the soil.  The worms will take the fym down into the soil.  I could cover them up with plastic but I will allow the rain to add nitrogen and wash the goodness from the fym into the soil.

I have had great harvests this year in my repurposed raised beds.  You don't  need to have a garden or allotment just some containers to grow your veg and some muck and magic.

Anyone else making use of the fine weather and getting their veg plot topped up with fym and ready for spring?