Thank you. We’ve started a new compost bin. I wish we had brought some of the worms from our old one with us! I’m cadging some from a gardening friend and hope by next Speing to have some lovely, organic home compost.
I prefer using well-rotted manure on the surface to chicken manure as it is bulkier and much preferred by the first type of worm (Anecic) which will drag it down into the soil. Ideally, you are trying to simulate a few inches of rotting leaves (ie leafmould) on the surface, which is how nature feeds the soil. If using chicken manure, I would also put down some other organic matter, such as home made compost or a commercial soil improver as I think the chicken manure on it's own may be a bit 'strong' for worms to eat directly.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Yes, that's the problem, it more or less is a dead garden having been covered, as is the thing, nowadays with mostly shredded tyres at the back and slates and slabs at the front. I just need to be more patient, give them something to eat, (yes, I can get manure and so will use that too) and let nature do the rest. The back is about to have major landscaping done to it and so that won't help. In the end I hope to breathe life back into this garden but perhaps I've watched too many makeover programmes! Of course, it's going to take a while...
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