It has now become an annual tradition on the last weekend of January to go to the Hampshire Potato Day in Whitchurch, Hampshire. I take some other plotholders to fill the car up and we enjoy buying up our Seed Potatoes nice and early in the season. click on 'read more' button on right
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Here's some more on my moving the spent compost from one of the hotbeds in the tunnel.
I decided I'd put the compost on the outside bed that I'd recently put about 4 inches of fresh seaweed and then thick cardboard on top. It will go over the cardboard as a surface mulch because it hasn't broken down a lot. Well, it's 2017 and I didn't get to do anything to my blog on my previous website last year as I'd hoped. I'll endeavour to keep on top of this one! The reason I am not adding to my previous website is because Weebly now has 'Responsive Themes' which don't work on the older websites, so I've started a new one. Yesterday, I started to remove the spent hotbed material from the west hotbed inside the polytunnel. This was originally built in 24th February of 2015 and because I've been limited by a hip replacement I didn't build any hotbeds in early 2016, With the help of a pal doing the shifting, I just added about a 18 inch layer to the existing one last January, which wasn't that effective. It had a lot of wood shavings in it which didn't decompose enough as it couldn't get hot enough to have a really good 'burn' It will still be useful as a 'surface mulch' though. I'll add some pictures tomorrow.
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