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Time to make a fresh batch of comfrey based plant food to see us over the winter. So, cleaned out the bucket and used the sludge in the bottom, diluted, to feed the pumpkins. Then cut back all my comfrey – the flowers have just about gone over now – and shredded the leaves into the bucket, it half filled it! Add a liberal layer of fresh hen poo, top up with water and leave to stew for a couple of weeks. Should be ready to give everything a couple of feeds through the winter, and start off feeding in spring.

Also did a radical prune on my massive, beautiful buddleia which was around 7 feet tall and is now about 12 inches of stump but apparently it’ll grow back more vigorously next year and the pruning will protect it from damage if we get storms or heavy snow. Snow killed my rosemary bush last year through sheer weight, the main stem split straight down the middle and it never recovered. So the biggest of the replacement plants has also been pruned hard to prevent that happening again. The others are small enough still that they should be safe. Watch us have a very mild winter and no storms now….

Chopped down my teasel, mulched the melon (which isn’t doing at all well and is probably dying, I so need a greenhouse..), mucked out the hens and generally tidied up a bit.

All in all a productive day, but it does feel decidedly autumnal now and I think I need to start looking at search engine stuff on the Ethics Trading site again with an eye towards winter and Christmas. It’s not that far away now you know….

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