BEST LAID PLANS
A couple of weeks ago, we grabbed a dry spell to get this year’s wuzzels taken up and under cover. What a waste of time that turned out to be.
Weighing in
Every spring I drill five rows of mangel seed the full length of my allotment, and every year, on average, I get around 11 tons of wuzzel to feed the sheep over late winter and early spring. How do I know? Well, when we take them up, we load them into a half-ton Dolav crate, and on average over the years I get 22 crates full, which I calculate is to ten to 11 ton. And very nice they look when stacked under cover at one end of the tractor shed.
However, this year we managed only 2½ bins and they look pathetic skulking in a corner. To make matters worse, as well as the wuzzels I drill a few rows of hungry gap kale and some rows of savoy cabbage, none of this came to anything either. So, it’s going to be a “poor do” for the sheep this winter.
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The problem
