After a year in the making it was time to break out the leaf mould. Now I have to say after two car journeys to fill about 10 old compost bags full of leaves, then cram them into the leaf mould basket, I’m a little disappointed that the end result is just one wheelbarrow full of mulch.
Needless to say it didn’t go far, but it did look good. Nice and dark, crumbly, smelled good… And then I realised I was possibly a little too much into it ;>) Anyway, I put it round the brassicas, not as deep as I’d like it to have been mind. I should also point out that the picture is very flattering to the Brussels, they’re not as tall as they look!
Fortunately (?) there were two less celeriac to mulch around after they joined the long, long list of casualties lost to the slugs.
The ‘Great Autumn Tidy Up’ commenced and I cut down the remains of the broad beans and peas to add to the compost heap. The summer squash were no more (well they were only maintaining a healthy slug population, it’s not like we’d seen anything off them for sometime now) and the comfrey (again maintaining far too many slugs than should be on an allotment) joined them all on the compost heap. The weeds that have been covering my main path were cleared off and I weeded some of the empty parts of the beds. Obviously there’s a little more work to be done…
A Plot Too Far? 