Spring at the Big Garden

Clare's mixing our own potting compost using a recipe from I don't dig peat:

Ingredients
1 part sand
1 part leaf mould
1 part garden compost
1 part loam (soil from a garden bed)

What you do
Just sieve it all together!

We're experimenting  and comparing it to a bought organic peat free compost. Will let you know the outcome. 

Here's Matt using some coppiced hazel from the woods to make some woven fencing.

The uprights are cut from the red alder we've felled from the shelter belt. It was planted as a fast growing tree to get the belt established while slower growing trees developed.