Last week, my Client thought that I was “miles away” while weeding the top-fruit bed.
They did not realise that I was actually pondering a deep philosophical truth about gardening...
A fortnight ago, I wrote about how a covering of weeds does not, strictly speaking, count as growing “green manure”.
And we had a similar situation in this garden: a few weeks ago we shovelled on a generous helping of our home-made compost - and when I say “we” you know that I mean “I” - at the base of a run of espaliered fruit trees: as they are, by their nature, closely planted, we like to add nutrients, and as this Client doesn't like artificial fertilisers, we use our own compost....
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