I rolled up my sleeves and got the big fork out yesterday over at the allotment. The Big Fork, in my 16 square metres, is my equivalent of an ‘Earth Mover’. I grubbed out some poor performing plants that were not earning their corn, take no prisoners, on the compost heap they went.
I wanted to clear some ground and feed the soil ready for the next planting. We had no compost bins ready at the farm so off I went to Bunnings for bags of organic compost. Then I added blood and bone, and raided a pile of lawn clippings rotting away beside the community garden. The heavy rain we had a few weeks ago had turned some of the soil into a heavy clay-like substance and I dug everything in, in an attempt to break it up.
I had raised the level of the soil so much that the little slabs I use as a footpath vanished.
Never mind, I dug them up, moved the soil around a bit, and re-laid them.
I was quite pleased with my efforts and to make this post even MORE interesting here is a photo of the finished job. Good eh?
And just to show that there is something still growing I took a few photos.