Feed your compost

 feed small bits of cardboard every week to your compost bin and

 hundreds of worms will make a bee-line for your compost enriching your soil no end.

The reason: worms are mad about the glue in the carboard

Floods

 My allotment has now been under water for six weeks..........I can do nothing other then wait for Old Father Thames to go back to his bed and when that happens I will have to loosen up my compressed soil.

What I want to know is: Where do moles go when it floods>

Dig a potato trench:

What I do this time of year is, dig  a potato trench for your March plantings.

Dig a trench 20–30 cm (8–12 ins deep) and a spade’s blade in width.

Line the trench  with cardboard and newspaper, fill with vegetable peelings, covering with soil (to stop rats) as the layers are added.

By planting time,(Good Friday) this will have reduced well and will help the soil to retain water over the growing season.

Well worth the effect, come a dry summer! 

What to do after a garden flood

If you have had floods on your plot ( as I have ) before you do anything on your plot, make sure you have a tetanus shot.

 It’s not even a painful jab but tetanus can kill you and goodness knows what is in the soil after a flood.

So check it out!