MUCK OR NETTLES
What a wonderful spell of autumn weather we have enjoyed this year. I am writing this halfway through November but it’s more like September. If this is global warming, I like it.
What a heap
We have the whole of the mangel crop lifted and in store during the finest dry conditions we can ever remember. Also, I have managed to get the ever-growing muck heap forked into the muck spreader and spread onto the allotment. As usual, I do a bit at a time each day, about an hour with the muck fork, and I’m ready for a sit-down and a mug of tea.
As always, I work out it takes about four hours to fill and four minutes to empty. So, the heap has almost gone, just some recent drier stuff left and now ready for this winter’s valuable contribution from the donkeys, chickens, and housed sheep.
I always have a problem with it this time of year. It piles up over the summer and by now it’s overflowing, but normally this time of year it is so soft on our silt it’s almost impossible to go on the bare land. I’ve tried it in the
