News arrives that my local council has 200 tons of compost to give away to people who live in the area.
They’re doing it in a town just a 10-minute drive from where we live and I am sorely tempted. But Susan disagrees.
Her three points:
- She isn’t driving the car with a load of shit in the back
- She ain’t humiliating herself by joining a queue for shit
- In slightly different words: Is it a sound trade-off for the environment to drive that distance in the car to get the stuff?
To which I must add that you have to take your own bag. Knowing us, we’d probably take the one with a hole.
What turned out to be an attractive offer is now dead in the water as far as we are concerned. But all this does underline the fact that I need to attach more importance to soil preparation. I’m guilty of overlooking it during my first year of vegetable growing and I think the crop has suffered.
Looking around for compost bins to buy, I notice the cheapest of the ‘subsidised’ ones on offer from the council is now £22 + £5 delivery. Susan reckons that’s extortionate and I seem to remember it’s not so long ago since they were £17 with free delivery.
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