Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I was given 2 bits of great advice by a farmer:

1. The seeds ain't gonna grow in the packet
2. There are billions of years of evolution telling plants to grow. You're much more likely to get something than nothing.
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Looking at that picture, you've got some great soil there. It you get the weeds out and dig in some rotted horse poo (go to a stables and you should be able to get it for somewhere between cheaply and free) you should have a great growing medium.

To reduce the effort of weeding and watering, use mulch. I've recently started using it and it's great.

People round the corner from me sell their poop £1 a sack. I have tried to give mine away ( as cannot deal with bagging it) no takers.

the value is I the bagging.

Urban stables have to pay to have it carted.

A rotting muck heap, properly stacked is an incredible thing, almost scent free, and turn to something useable very much more quickly.

Very few people stack muck or make middens now, but it makes a lot of difference, you coulde make a small midden in your carden and add your kitchen waste. Much better than compost I think.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm prepared to give things a go even if it may not be optimal anyway!

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Best plan.

Enjoy it.

vivatifosi

Is this going to be a new criterion? We are all hated by the Daily Mail.

Hopefully my mum won't hate me too. She has turned into a very avid reader in recent years. I have to devote at least an hour a week to explaining why it is wrong.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

People round the corner from me sell their poop £1 a sack. I have tried to give mine away ( as cannot deal with bagging it) no takers.

the value is I the bagging.

Urban stables have to pay to have it carted.

A rotting muck heap, properly stacked is an incredible thing, almost scent free, and turn to something useable very much more quickly.

Very few people stack muck or make middens now, but it makes a lot of difference, you coulde make a small midden in your carden and add your kitchen waste. Much better than compost I think.

My Dad uses 100% of the stables' output for his veggie garden and the orchard. It's a joint effort to move it from the muck heap to the garden / orchard, involving any family member too stupid to be unavoidably detained elsewhere, plus Isaac, who loves wheelbarrows and digging.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

People round the corner from me sell their poop £1 a sack. I have tried to give mine away ( as cannot deal with bagging it) no takers.

the value is I the bagging.

Urban stables have to pay to have it carted.

A rotting muck heap, properly stacked is an incredible thing, almost scent free, and turn to something useable very much more quickly.

Very few people stack muck or make middens now, but it makes a lot of difference, you coulde make a small midden in your carden and add your kitchen waste. Much better than compost I think.

I've had a water meter fitted, but I'm still not going to !!!!!! in the garden (googled midden)

Maybe when I'm over picking up my Japanese wineberry I'll relieve you of a bag of muck. I'll happily bag some up for you in payment :rotfl:

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Is this going to be a new criterion? We are all hated by the Daily Mail.

Hopefully my mum won't hate me too. She has turned into a very avid reader in recent years. I have to devote at least an hour a week to explaining why it is wrong.

I run out of energy to explain both the social stuff and the 'medical' stuff is nonsense to mine.

Will delete;
My mum is a non-EU migrant and works in a pharmacy :eek:

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I've had a water meter fitted, but I'm still not going to !!!!!! in the garden (googled midden)

Maybe when I'm over picking up my Japanese wineberry I'll relieve you of a bag of muck. I'll happily bag some up for you in payment :rotfl:

One bag!? Not a gardener yet . We'll sort you out with the fruitcakey stuff.


NDG ......we're thinking of getting the digger driver io shift ours this autumn . Not having an Isaac.

neverdespairgirl

My Dad believes it's completely reasonable to use handy family members as unpaid slave labour, if they are around. Fair enough, I reckon.

Sometimes it's towed round with the tractor and trailer, but it still needs to be shovelled into the trailer and then shovelled out and dug in at the other end. At the moment, using the tractor would be insane, it would create massive ruts and damage everywhere in the marsh.

vivatifosi

Re north facing gardens. My old house had a teeny tiny north facing garden that was:

a) bordered immediately to the west by my porch wall
b) bordered only slightly less immediately to the east by my neighbour's porch wall
c) bordered to the south and only separated by a 3ft wide path by a huge wooden fence.

It got about 1/2 an hour of direct sunlight a day, but still stuff grew there. Not just traditional shade lovers like foxgloves and bleeding heart either, but I'd chuck in other supposedly sun loving plants such as petunias and they would do fine too.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

One bag!? Not a gardener yet . We'll sort you out with the fruitcakey stuff.


NDG ......we're thinking of getting the digger driver io shift ours this autumn . Not having an Isaac.

Please make space for a pm.

By the time it becomes relevant, I'm sure you'll have been shown enough pics to size up how many bags I can relieve you of

Edit: I seem to be quite good at shovelling !!!!!! , perhaps not as good as a digger though.