Great post! It's so nice to read about other allotment goers. We just had our annual Poo Day, where a good friend of ours helps us fill his big trailer with about 1.5 tonnes of manure from his brother's farm.
It's such a slog on a hot day like today and I'm exhausted now, but it's so good to get a good supply of new organic matter into the plot, and it'll boost all the plants for another year!
I think we tried the sweetcorn idea a few years back, but unfortunately our island is terrifically windy, so I'm not sure it worked quite the way we expected. But I'd like to give it another go. I think I read that this is how indigenous South American farmers grew their crops before Europeans settled there.
Thank You so much!
Wow that sounds like an intense poo day and some really hard graft.
All of that organic matter will do the veg so good. I topped up my beds with compost but no poo this year.
Ahhh yeah give it another go. I can imagine the wind causing you a lot of trouble. My house is very open to the Elements and I must admit I can't grow much here without it being wind broken.
I've heard the same about this growing method and its history. Really interesting.