Black Gold

One of the services our local Recycling Centre provides is the sporadic supply of free 'green' compost. It's obviously made from all the garden waste people take there (and it's black not green). I've said that it's sporadic because you never know when it's going to turn up. But, as soon as there's a delivery of a lorry-load of compost, the word gets round and there seems to be a constant procession of cars and trailers!

However, to our amazement, we suddenly have two lorry-loads of compost. So we're trying to stock up whilst it's available. We've spead it as a weed-suppressant on some of the vegetable beds and now we've started to put it on the 'long' bed.

The only trouble is, we think the long bed would take all of the compost that they've got!!!