The compost arrived
It was tipped at 4:30, and while waiting, I managed to make a few beds using the aptly named ‘Grunters’. Although very heavy, I only need a few to make a bad. I’ll need more cardboard for the potato and the inside beds. IKEA…
Bribery?
By promising a dozen biscuits to the supplier of the mushroom compost, I’ve had a response and the tipper should be here today. Not knowing what time he’s going to arrive, I’ve made them when I got up at 6. Choc chip cookies, a…
Ray’s Tomatoes
Ray has an interesting way of planting tomatoes. He buys cherry tomatoes, not just your average tasteless tomatoes but the delicious and often not just red. After cutting them in half places them face down on compost and waits until they germinate. They need…
Bricks, Plants anD seeds
A classic second early French variety which has been prized for over 70 years for its tasty tubers with a distinctive chestnut flavour. Potato ‘Ratte’ produces long, smooth skinned tubers with white skins and yellow, waxy flesh which does not disintegrate during cooking. Delicious…
Hunneds of Tomatoes donated
Lynda, our neighbour found an advert for tomatoes and arrange for a collection this morning. I was greeted by Ray an avid tomato grower. He’s given me a couple of trays of tomatoes he grows from bought cherry tomatoes. Just the delicious ones of…
First Review
Bryan, a friend who is also a carer and diagnosed with MND, came over today. He’s my idea’s man and we are able to bounce ideas off each other and have done since we first met. He walks with the aid of two sticks…
Heavy Blocks
A lovely couple in Kinglassie had some blocks going free. “I’m here for the exercise” I said “you’re at the right place” and I was. These blocks are called grunters, they are twice the thickness of a normal breeze block and feel about four…
Turf turns into soil
Two generous families have donated turf to the project. It took two loads in the Sportage loaded to the gunnels. Incorporating some horse manure and covering it up in black plastic to bake for six months will turn it into delicious soil to grow…
More beds – no compost
Building beds with blocks is quicker and easier. I need about twelve block per bed or nearly seventy bricks. In Zimbabwe, some of the white farmers were affectionately dubbed ama-pointer. With an outstretched finger “you do this, you do that.” The dining room chairs…
Shoveling Sh..Manure
In the corner of the poly tunnel, Rory built a pallet compost pit and both he and I filled it with a cube of horse manure. Rain water was added. A week later I was interested to see if the temperature inside the middle…