March
The first day of March. Although we are not quite through it, the English winter of 2022/2023 has been pretty mild and bearable. There has also been very little rain to speak of and as a consequence our vegetable plot is proving quite easy to dig over. In some past years each spadeful of soil has been heavy because of water-logging. Our soil has a high clay content and tends to retain water easily but this year it seems quite light and friable - easy to break up. In the next week or so I plan to open up a couple of our compost bins in order to enrich the earth where our vegetables grow. We are quite fervent about composting and save just about everything that can be composted from potato peelings to the contents of our vacuum cleaner. A few years back I was horrified to discover that most teabags are made from a fine plastic mesh and not biodegradable paper as I had naively imagined. For years I had been putting used teabags in our compost bins. Thereafter we would e...
