We found the compost farm where the council recycles green waste collected from the kerbside. It was huge. There were huge mounds of steaming compost everywhere you looked. We drove the car into the barn, got out the shovel and started to fill our sacks with the compost. It was hot and smelly. We filled the car to the brim with the bags and headed off back to the allotment.
At the time of loading it into the car we thought we had loads of the stuff but when we tipped it out our bags on to one plot it barely covered the soil. As it was quite heavy work we decided to break for lunch, and planned go back in the afternoon and get some more.
While sat relaxing in the sunshine, just before lunch, I had a call from my friend to say her sister was going down to the horses later at about 7 if we would like to follow her down to where she goes and then we could help ourselves to some manure. Well, why not the car was already smelly so yes we would see here at 7pm.
After lunch I decided to opt out of the second trip to the compost farm and left that to Pug and his dad while I went and did my household chore of foraging for food at the supermarket. And today I did buy on piece of veg... A red pepper. I also bought an air freshener for the car!
Later on in the day I went back to the allotment to check on how the compost boys were doing. When I arrived back I noticed that one of the other allotment guys had put us to shame with his mountainous pile of compost. He had been to the same farm as we had been earlier but as he had access to a truck had used that to get a great deal more than us. We have always resigned ourselves to the fact that we will never be able to keep up with the Joneses as we like to try and fit in a bit of a life as well.
Anyway, we spread the compost out over the two plots that I had bug over and then just pottered around the plot and did a bit more tidying.
We noticed that our leeks that were alright last week had been attached buy the dreaded leek moth and where getting eaten away so we pulled them out, cut the tops off and I will make some leek and potato soup then freeze it to use up the leeks.
Later in the day, or should I say dusk, my friend turned up with her sister and off we went to collect the manure. The smell wasn’t too bad. All I could smell by this time was the compost from earlier in the day. Whether this was from me or the car I don’t know.
By the time we got the manure back to the allotment it was pitch black. We must have looked like some scene from the ‘Sopranos’ with our spades and dragging heavy bags out the back of the car and onto the plot.
We headed home, changed and cleaned up. We then settled down for a lovely glass/bottle or two of wine and chat with friends.
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