https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/08/29/saturday-ritual/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 14 May 2011 19:48:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/08/29/saturday-ritual/#comment-15886 Sat, 14 May 2011 19:48:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-15886 On a farm here in Devon the farmer’s wife does this. Wherever she wants to plant something, say against a beautiful cob wall or to hide something horrid, she just dumps a load of ‘muck’ or earth or compost or good old FYM (farm yard manure to you city dwellers), holds it back with some large bricks or stones, plants it up and hey presto. Magic. It truly works and saves loads of digging and puts plants where you never expected them to grow! Just make sure there’s ample drainage, so best done on earth or loose chippings or cobbles. Go on, try it if you’ve got the spot, and the will.

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