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from Gary Davis contains these words:

It's well worth digging a really big hole and filling it with as much
organic material as you can lay hands on. All the above plus buried
annual weeds, old leather shoes and chopped up wool jumpers, roadkill,
bones the dog has finished with, spoiled straw, plant waste you were
about to compost.

Although rhubarb will grow in very poor conditions, it really repays a
richly prepared site and will produce many years of far larger crops of
early, tasty, tender stalks than one eking out a hungry existence in
Oblivion Corner.

Janet.



Absolutely yes...but road kill?? Now who has the 'jam' to shovel up 'road
kill? Yes, it is a good idea...but just who will do that?

I would...

....not only that, but there is a fine tale of a Rover Scout camping
weekend around the late '50s or early '60s in which we (well, I was the
main instigator) stopped en route to despatch an injured hare, which
later, I jugged - to *ALMOST* universal acclaim.

Hummmm....gosh, I think I would...hadn't thought about that one until you
mentioned it. Just when one thinks all ideas have been thought of...then
this!

My rhubarb has a big bag of bones (amongst other things) under it, my
rural road being fairly quiet.

That's one for you Janet.
Gary
PS: And just think, you are there and I am here...and yet we come up with
amazing stuff...keep the flood gates open. We will amaze everyone with our
ideas...all we need is someone to teach us how to make money with
them....(vbg

I might make some on the rhubarb next year. Planted this spring as a
*VERY* small crown of Timperley Early, by the autumn the spread was six
feet, leaf-tip to leaf-tip.

By 'amongst other things' I include 20 dry gallons of unrotted horse
shmanure, feathers, pork skin and old woollies. The stuff acted as a
hotbed and the rhubarb was planted a couple of feet or so above it, and
a foot above ground level. Now, it's six inches below ground-level, and
waiting for a mulch of well-rotted stuff.

--
Rusty
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