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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Got Scythe?
Having borrowed a scythe from a neighbour and been shown how to use it, the allotment now has a short back and sides of grass. Today we started digging and tomorrow, weather permitting, I should go back and start double-digging. Start a trench, turn the sods from the next one into it, then dig deeper in the new trench and put the earth from that on top of the sods. If I bury the grass deep enough it won't grow back and, by rotting, will become compost for whatever we grow on top of it.
We have a few potatoes in the carbs cupboard that are beginning to sprout......
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Having borrowed a scythe from a neighbour and been shown how to use it, the allotment now has a short back and sides of grass. Today we started digging and tomorrow, weather permitting, I should go back and start double-digging. Start a trench, turn the sods from the next one into it, then dig deeper in the new trench and put the earth from that on top of the sods. If I bury the grass deep enough it won't grow back and, by rotting, will become compost for whatever we grow on top of it.
We have a few potatoes in the carbs cupboard that are beginning to sprout......
Technorati tag: Gardening, Allotment, Double digging
Labels: allotment, Compost, Potato
posted by Ian at 9:08 PM link
