I wrote last month about how we had placed an old pond liner and an old tarpaulin on the ground in our new small holding. The aim was to kill off the grass and weeds underneath. Alas, we suffered from wind! The carefully laid liner and tarpaulin did not stay in place following strong wind. We have now come up with an alternative.
The Whinnies Community Garden has 7 tonnes of top soil they no longer need. They are building a summer house and the top soil was removed so the foundations could be dug. The soil went into dumpy bags and was offered to the allotment holders on the site. Not many took up the offer. I then offered to take it though I warned that it would take some time to remove it all. Firstly it would have to be shoveled into sacks (thank goodness I never throw out plastic feed sacks), moved to the car park and then moved into the small holding (which thankfully is only a couple of minutes' drive away). To avoid overloading the land rover, we limit each trip to 14 sacks.
The topsoil and chicken and goat manure are then spread on the ground as a blanket to kill the weeds and grass underneath. In a few weeks, we will run the rotovator over the same ground ready for planting.
We still have about 3 tonnes of topsoil to take over and we hope to complete this task over the next few days.
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