Went to a place just outside of Limoges. Great time.
Back now and went and got 13 bags of manure from the horse place. It is the older stuff and is fab. However I need about 50 bags for the house garden first..
We got the papers through today for the new allotment. So we will keep this new one and give up the one I put all the work into with clearing it.
The new one is literally 50 yards from our front door.
It is in great condition with a large greenhouse and a smaller one that I will share with the chap who gave it up for us. He has the one next to it. Hopefully that makes sense.
Sorry I didn't reply. There are about 25 plots on the site but a few not really being kept up.
I need to do a lot over the winter getting the compost bins sorted. i.e. rebuilding them with pallets and clearing/tidying up, but I enjoy that kind of stuff. I like things to be organised and in the right place. Not OCD but tidy
I was going to keep it but decided I would concentrate on the one. There is a lot of tidying up and rearranging to do.
I can still get the manure. It's 100 yards down from the new allotment. So I can drive down, fill the bags and put them in the boot. Drive up, unload and Bob's yer uncle. I need to step over the new stuff to get to the good manure that is ready now.
Funnily enough, there is a gate at the back of the new allotment. You have to step up and over but the people in that field pile up their horse manure outside the gate. There isn't really any straw in it, just poo. I will build two or three bins and get that, then mix in green waste from the house and cardboard. So lots of choice. It will just take time to get compost bins sorted for it. The old good stuff will go straight on to the beds over winter.
Lots of raised beds and normal beds as well.
There are a couple of small fruit trees. One apple and not sure what the other is, but not in ideal places really.
Lots of flowers on the plot, chrysanthemums mainly, plus carnations, plus others I can't remember the names of. I only like the chrysanthemums though. About 10 Brussel sprout plants are in, not that I like them but my mum loves them.
I will draw out what was in each bed to see what to go in next year.
Flowers look pretty like them, sounds better manure won't take as long to rot down without the straw and still being able to get to the other manure is brilliant the more stuff the better
I have lots of manure on my plot in 1 tonne bags in crates storing at minute till I clear areas then put on plot, it is well rotted - I am covering some when put on plot as there is proberly weed seeds in the soil which I don't wont germinating
That allotment site is good to have horses near by with acess from plots to the manure
We got the manure by bagging it putting in car took 4 trips with car full (big CRV car) so it was lots of digging and off loading help of wheel barrow to the plot and emptied into the 1 tonne bags in crates
Got no pic of the manaure area will take one
Picture of where the manure was collected and how it looked
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Went to a place just outside of Limoges. Great time.
Back now and went and got 13 bags of manure from the horse place. It is the older stuff and is fab. However I need about 50 bags for the house garden first..
We got the papers through today for the new allotment. So we will keep this new one and give up the one I put all the work into with clearing it.
The new one is literally 50 yards from our front door.
It is in great condition with a large greenhouse and a smaller one that I will share with the chap who gave it up for us. He has the one next to it. Hopefully that makes sense.
Last edited: 12 October 2016 19:26:13
Sorry I didn't reply. There are about 25 plots on the site but a few not really being kept up.
I need to do a lot over the winter getting the compost bins sorted. i.e. rebuilding them with pallets and clearing/tidying up, but I enjoy that kind of stuff. I like things to be organised and in the right place. Not OCD but tidy
Helllo , yes I like things orderly as well , also I have changed things that didn't work for me , in fact you just have to try different things
Best of luck
Robin.white shame you giving up the plot you put a lot of effort in. can you still get the horse manure from the gate though from the plots?
nice small allotment site there is over 200 on the site I am on
I will need to build lots of compost bins am also using pallets for them also lots of digging to get done
I was going to keep it but decided I would concentrate on the one. There is a lot of tidying up and rearranging to do.
I can still get the manure. It's 100 yards down from the new allotment. So I can drive down, fill the bags and put them in the boot. Drive up, unload and Bob's yer uncle. I need to step over the new stuff to get to the good manure that is ready now.
Funnily enough, there is a gate at the back of the new allotment. You have to step up and over but the people in that field pile up their horse manure outside the gate. There isn't really any straw in it, just poo. I will build two or three bins and get that, then mix in green waste from the house and cardboard. So lots of choice. It will just take time to get compost bins sorted for it. The old good stuff will go straight on to the beds over winter.
Lots of raised beds and normal beds as well.
There are a couple of small fruit trees. One apple and not sure what the other is, but not in ideal places really.
Lots of flowers on the plot, chrysanthemums mainly, plus carnations, plus others I can't remember the names of. I only like the chrysanthemums though. About 10 Brussel sprout plants are in, not that I like them but my mum loves them.
I will draw out what was in each bed to see what to go in next year.
Flowers look pretty like them, sounds better manure won't take as long to rot down without the straw and still being able to get to the other manure is brilliant the more stuff the better
I have lots of manure on my plot in 1 tonne bags in crates storing at minute till I clear areas then put on plot, it is well rotted - I am covering some when put on plot as there is proberly weed seeds in the soil which I don't wont germinating
That allotment site is good to have horses near by with acess from plots to the manure
Any pics Gardengirl? How did you get the manure?
There is a local hardware shop just up the road, and I went today to ask if they had any spare pallets. 'take as many as you want'..
Should be enough here to make compost bins for us and the chap next to us.
Last edited: 15 October 2016 21:15:28
We got the manure by bagging it putting in car took 4 trips with car full (big CRV car) so it was lots of digging and off loading help of wheel barrow to the plot and emptied into the 1 tonne bags in crates
Got no pic of the manaure area will take one
Picture of where the manure was collected and how it looked
Picture of a bit of my plot
That is a good load of pallets
Hello problem I have with pallets can't get them in car !
That manure looks in the words of Craig Revell-Horwood - 'ah-may-zing'...Garden girl.
I am lucky in that I have an old Nissan X-trail and scratches don't matter, so I can get three in at a time
Today's efforts made in the pouring rain..
Before
After
Spare pallets stacked for now. They will be used to organise other stuff.
And built one for Bob next to us.
Last edited: 16 October 2016 17:55:53