Ashes.

May 10th, 2009 | Uncategorised

Somebody asked me about the ashes I used for the potatoes. As you can see from the photos below they were not quite what I had anticipated.

Some nice person offered them to me from a friend of theirs who was burning palettes (though why they don’t re-use palettes I don’t know). Silly me, I didn’t realise they wouldn’t take the nails out of them. So in one trench I have a lot of nails around my spuds! I don’t see them doing that well I’m afraid as the spuds will probably grow with the nails inside them. By the time I had thought about it it was too late for them.

I must stop being lazy when digging and planting at the plot. Still, it’s an experiment I guess – and I will learn a valuable lesson when I have to take them out later in the year. 🙁