First time at the allotment this year on Sunday, and it was very cold. Too cold to dig (thankfully) but there were some signs of life: birdsong, and small shoots of the onions and garlic. Nothing from the broad beans yet.
Started to build a no-dig bed with the cardboard left over from presents. Took a full load on the bike…
Bike with trailer full of carboard
Cardboard left over from presents
… but that didn’t actually make a very large bed. Ironically, the evening after I did this, my partner decides to get rid of 2 square metres of cardboard, and today I notice that a local shop put a load of cardboard out for recycling.
First, the cardboard from family and friends; then a layer of manure from Gorgie City Farm; finally a liberal covering of leamould that the council drop in the Saughton Mains site. Now to wait for it to cook, and decide what I want to put in there.
Cardboard, manure and leafmould
The start of a no-dig bed
18 Saughton Mains, no more! 