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Compost, Compost and more Compost

Compost, Compost and more Compost

Hello Everyone, 

We hope you are well.

We have had a major development in the Walled Garden this week. The first twenty tons of Pas 100 compost arrived on Thursday. The second twenty tons arrived on Friday. Another twenty tons will be arriving tomorrow (Monday). Sixty ton will make a huge significant change to the garden. The area has always looked like a lawn. Now, with the creation of growing beds, it is starting to feel like the garden of our imagination.

The loads arrive and are dumped just outside the wall and gate into the garden. The farmer, driving the tractor and trailer, has such skill as the road winds down an incline with many bends. We have a digger and a dumper truck to move the compost to the bed. The first bed to be filled with compost will probably have soft fruit growing within it. All the piles of compost need to be levelled…Graham the Great and Bob had this job.

The bed next to what may be the soft fruit bed, also had compost delivered and levelled. We are working our way up the garden as the area reserved for a very large greenhouse needs plenty of space to allow the builders to work in the construction of the greenhouse. We will be filling the top bed area after the building works are completed.

So it has been really exciting to have a change in how the space within the garden is now becoming beds for growing. Once the beds are up and running…we will be using the ‘no-dig’ approach, just like we have on the farm.

The farm is doing fine. I have enjoyed harvesting and preserving the produce we have been growing. I have been making jars and jars of tomato sauce. I have also chopped onions and peppers. They were then portioned into bags and placed into the freezer. I will use them as and when required. I have also made soups, bagged them and also placed them in the freezer. I have also collected fennel seeds and herbs are drying over the Rayburn. I have not been this organised for the Winter for many a year. I am really enjoying my time in the kitchen, such a change.

I will be in the kitchen for some of the time this coming week, but looking at the weather for the week…the garden might be calling. 

Have a good week and take care,

Ann👩🏻‍🌾