As the old year slows down, shudders to a halt, it is time to take stock of our first six months with the new soil. The long winter exile ended in May, so our usual spring planting was necessarily later.
For a long while we were playing catch-up. The new earth was finer, sandier than before, so we added much manure: 25 sacks of heavy horse, a giant dumpy bag of a ‘soil improver’ mix, more manure, bark and grit. And it worked, mostly.
