The Friday before the NGS sees Fiona having designed and produced some really nice numbered arrows to guide visitors around. We’re really excited to share with you that we’re expanding our growing space into our neighbours garden. Make sure any waste suspected to be infected with COVID-19 is double bagged and kept on your property for a minimum of 72 hours before disposal. CWM also runs 4 household recycling centres in Carmarthenshire, Waste Transfer Stations and two Material Recycling Facilities (MRF’s).

Our 10mm compost is generally supplied in 40L bags and is a good general-purpose compost suitable for pots and young plants. Much more effort hand weeding – nearly worked round the whole garden for the third time – as always reaching some areas of Hairy Bittercress just in the nick of time. In glorious sunshine, a lot of time is spent taking photos – the garden has never looked this good, and the images belie the extremely cold weather. Meanwhile Fiona spends much of the day dragging down the piles of ash brash to the bottom of the field, and collecting 2 big bags worth of ash twigs to be kept for kindling. Within 6 weeks a Bittercress plant can go from this point, to seedpods which split and fling seeds everywhere – so this single species really sets the maximum interval between re weeding all sections of the garden.Chainsaw back the ash and hazel above the greenhouse – probably not been done since it was installed, and has increasingly shade this area. More hand weeding needed – 3 of us on this all day on Friday, concentrating on removing Cleavers/Goosegrass from the lower meadow copse hedge bank, and me doing more int Other items such as glass and clothes can be recycled at the recycling centre or smaller recycling banks. With last Wednesday marking a year since Carmarthenshire County Council declared a climate emergency, there was much agreement in the room the council should be doing more to empower local people to tackle this and that closing the centre would be a step back. Our range of Merlin’s Magic produce is made from organic local materials at our compost facility in Nantycaws.

More Tomcot flower pollination with my feather on a Miscanthus stem – I’ve found that in the moist environment of the greenhouse, one needs to shake off the ageing petals, or a Botrytis style mould will rot the developing fruitlets. Main ventilation is a stanley blower fan in the top right compartment, discharging through a carbon filter on the left. You will be provided with gloves, aprons, tongs and antibacterial spray and there will be labelled bins for you to put your recyclable materials in. I plant out a few tomato plants into the big pots in the greenhouse, then realise I should cut back engulfing nectarine and tomcot foliage, so do this and complete thinning out the nectarines. With both national and local governments here in Wales keen to expand recycling, businesses in the sector have seen expanding markets of a sort those in other sectors would be envious of.This phone number is for emergencies and is available after 6pm and up until 8:30am on weekdays, and on Saturdays, Sundays, and Bank Holidays. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The previous batch of hay from earlier in May has now been tipped out to dry even more – directly onto the pallets. I always whizz down with the ridging hoe after this, to clear out the small chevron feeder channels, which feed into the central one.