I decided back in September that I wasn’t going to have enough home-made compost for my needs this year and that I’d need to order some in as well. I then proceeded to put the purchase off for as long as possible (perhaps down to the wet weather). But now I need to get new beds made for this year’s strawberries, edible flowers and my first foray into cutting flowers so I had to bite the bullet. As it turns out, financially the delay worked out in my favour because the price for delivery of six tonnes of compost had come down a fair bit.
Unfortunately when the chap turned up to drop it off the ground was still too soft to take the load of his six-wheeler tipper truck and I ended up having to tow him out of the field using the tractor. It hadn’t rained for a couple of weeks, but I guess that’s what six months of grim weather does for you.
Anyhow, I now have a big pile of compost sitting in the field. All I need now is to get it moved…
