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Lying down.
The manure turned up with no notice and needed to be cleared off the carriageway ASAP.
Thirty barrow loads in the two hours before it got dark, and a hundred metres down the hill onto a pile that really wasn't ready.

Oh the pain!

scratching my head mostly
think I'll get some straw tomorrow; compost half of it with some comfrey for the spring, and shove some down on the celeriac if its warm

also I've go the day off, so maybe risk some parsnip wine

I stuck down some Rye a few weeks ago and its done rubbish; hardly any came up. Just chopped down the Phacelia and will dig in tomorrow. Might try and get tares on top of that before winter. My soil is THAT rubbish. Newspaper and compost helped (a bit). One round of Phacelia looks to have helped a b...

Hello. We're relative newbies down the Lottie, but enthuiastic and armed with our trusty Joy Larkcom book feel like we're getting there. We've got the manure order in on time this year and hopefully will have a whole load of it soon; pretty raw by the sounds of it. My new addition for the Lottie thi...