Rachel discusses how we use chicken manure in our main composting pile and to make a liquid plant feed.

Rachel has a good look around the plot and discusses the plans for autumm/winter and spring improvement/development jobs.

Use the time out of season well to develop your plot for the next year! The more you can do this the tider, more productive and less work your plot will be during the growing season.

At Don’t Crop Me Now we tend to stick to a combination of homemade compost or composted animal manure (chicken/horse) as a way of feeding our crops through a ‘No Dig’ process. If you can feed the soil to maintain a healthy soil ecosystem, you rarely need to worry about fertilising plants! However, when plants are grown in pots, particularly those for a short season, the growing medium hasn’t really had time to establish a biological balance. Therefore, we do add a balanced organic fertiliser such as blood, fish and bone to boost our container grown potatoes and use a high potash feed on flowering plants such as chillies, tomatoes, peppers and aubergines. A simple high potash liquid feed can be made from the plant comfry.