Manure

Stable manure is regularly delivered to the site, it is irregular so keep your eye open for a fresh heap. It may be barley straw, wood chip or paper-based but all will successfully compost given time and right conditions. We get an irregular deliver from the Buckingham Palace Mews - so special stuff!

Members are permitted to take as much manure as they wish and most have availed themselves of the opportunity to construct composting heaps on their plots. Fresh manure is too strong for most crops so a 12 month period of composting (without mixing with others material) will provide rich feed for what can be a hungry soil, especially if you grow plenty of crops.

Wood chippings

A regular supply of fresh wood chippings is delivered to the site. Members may take as much as they want. It will take a long time to rot down and then will provide an acidic compost. A small amount mixed in with other material can be useful. Many members use it for paths as it is a reasonably good weed suppresant. An annual top-up keep paths looking neat.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth!
Has life anything better to offer than this?
Beverley Nichols