Today you find me sweeping leaves . Replenishing the good Earth .
So Ricardo has been bombing around on his ride on lawn mower and has had orders to please put the grass clippings onto the old Runner-bean bed .
My job - sweeping up leaves .
Brown and green - is what makes the most perfect compost .
I prefer to just spread this straight onto my vegetable beds and let the worms do the digging over Autumn and Winter .
I am no longer adding manure from horses/cows - due to the risk of Aminopyralid poisoning - from a weed killer- which apparently some farmers have been spraying on to their fields - horses / cows eat the grass and hay and the manure that they then produce , if put on our vegetable beds , causes all plants to become twisted and deformed . AND it stays in the ground for years .
The French Bean bed is next . I have been putting fruit and vegetable peelings , spent compost ,a little wood chippings , grass clippings , sea weed and cardboard ....which needs to be flattened and something put on top to stop it blowing away . It very quickly breaks down when the rain comes .
I quickly sorted that cardboard out , tearing it into shreds and more grass clippings put on top . It's going to rain again later on , so it will soon break down . Looking a bit smarter now I've done that !
Hopefully tomorrow , I will gather more leaves to go on top .
🌧️The worms , the toadstools , the wind and the rain , will get to work on it all 🍄🪱⛈️
🧡Loving Autumn ! 🧡
