Tag Archives: horse manure

Round the garden in 80 days #21

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Helen

As we move into the second quarter of my 80 days around the garden series, we have another episode on clearing unwanted undergrowth. This patch at the back by the Reinette Orléans looks worse than it actually turned out to … Continue reading →

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Around the garden in 80 days #8

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Helen

Well, I’m a tenth of the way through my quest to write 80 blogposts in 80 consecutive days and so far there appears to be plenty to say. Thus, after going to the monthly spinners’ guild meeting this morning, I … Continue reading →

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Around the garden in 80 days #3

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Helen

I’m cheating slightly here, as we went out on Sunday, so strictly speaking there is no post for Day 3. Side Oven Bakery near Driffield opened its doors for apple picking, so we took the opportunity to buy some flour … Continue reading →

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Back to the stables

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Helen

Further proof that the horse manure is doing some good in the garden came the other day when I noticed what the blackbirds had been up to in the main garlic bed. I don’t know if the birds were successful … Continue reading →

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Oh no! Those pesky pigeons again

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Helen

I hadn’t been wandering around the garden as much since the snows of January and February, so I wasn’t paying attention to the space at the back. Then at my local farm last week, there was a notice that the … Continue reading →

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Right to the top

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Helen

Well, today I emptied out the last of the bags of horse manure. The jury is still out as to whether anymore is procured from the stables near the farm where I buy raw milk and now also sourdough bread, … Continue reading →

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Picking up the pieces

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Helen

Two tomato plants, in the small bed by the back door, decided to make their move sometime during the autumn. They’d been spindly little things all summer, then suddenly they were bushes, flowered and started to grow fruit in late … Continue reading →

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Better beans?

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Helen

2020 has been a dismal year for beans – at least for me. The molluscs made a meal of the broad beans over winter and it continued from there. Every time I saw a broad bean shoot, it was too … Continue reading →

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Making holes

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Helen

Since putting newspaper, manure and cardboard down to create better soil near the back door, I’ve been mulling over how to proceed. First of all, I wondered how easy it would be to plant through the cardboard layer, at the … Continue reading →

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The first good feed in years

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Helen

Ever since we’d started going to Red Lodge Farm near Wakefield for our raw milk, we’d pass a stables which offered ‘Free Manure’. The first time, I lodged it in the back of my mind for future reference; and thereafter … Continue reading →

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