"Wally" wrote...
After a interesting first year as an allotment gardener, some
failure but quite a lot of success.
I am now looking forward to a second and hopefully more
successful year, learning from the mistakes I made last year.

Which brings me to the purpose of this post.
I know that I should be putting something back into the soil
but not knowing what is the best thing.
Can someone help me with some advice and suggestions.
Not to expensive BTW as that would defeat the object of
growing my own veg.

We have a local farmer/stables that leaves the straw/horse manure out for at
least a year to mature so it's instantly useable, and he delivers it at £12
per trailer load. Wonderful stuff, we get two loads a year which I dig into
one quarter of our plot...we use a 4 year rotation (so it goes on the potato
bed every year). Funny enough I was talking to the Shepherd that help
deliver it today in Sainsbury's about ordering two loads but he said with
all this rain and the F & M they can't get to it yet.
Ask around your site and see if there is anyone like that in your area but
do make sure it's well rotted so little straw shows.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK