Piglet6 wrote:Retropants, did you mean me?
Very kind of you to consider me so neat-and-tidy, i'm always impressed to see a tidy plot because I'm fully aware of the effort involved.Piglet6 wrote:Richard, yes it's very stoney. I pick out the biggest and make a little pile
And there is me feeling sorry for myself thinking everyone-else is working with lovely soft soil that doesn't go claggy. The soil in my beds is improving, I found that by adding sand and various soil improvers the stones are easier to separate and i'm sure many actually drop lower. Does that make any sense ?
I don't know if you you understand what I mean but I can actually run my hands through the soil without using tools in half of my raised beds. I do know it's all on a smaller scale to what you're working with, I think I may have given up if I hadn't gone for the three raised beds where I can concentrate my efforts on the soil and the drainage is very good.
At this time of year particularly, it only takes a week of neglect to add what seems like a logarithmic increase in weeds and untidy borders. The grass around my beds grows very quickly because I never pick-up, right now it's six inches tall after only a week. The grass around the house that is always picked up needs help with chicken pellets and grows much more slowly which amounts to a lesson about growing things for me. How do you manage to economically feed your soil annually on such a large plot ?
