A mini harvest!

Yesterday I thinned out the spinach (chard) to give them some space to grow nice and big. Some of the baby leaves found their way into Joe and Lola's breakfast and the rest was saved for supper (I ended up adding it to a beef lasagne).

Then I set to work feeding the veggie patch, the lavender seedlings, strawberries and some of the potplants using homemade liquid fertilizer. This I made nearly two weeks ago.

 I put horse manure courtesy of Joy and Siam into two plastic mesh bags  (one bag inside the other - those used for pockets of oranges or onions), tied it to the side of a large bucket filled with rain water and let it steep.

The result was sifted and diluted 50/50 (one could dilute it even more) in the watering can before being applied to the plants and I can really see a difference today! Some veggies, especially the brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbages), tomatoes and chard are heavy feeders and need a little something every two weeks. The only guys that would not appreciate it are the root veggies like carrots. Give it a try, it's a little smelly (only if steeped for more than a week) but cheap and effective and very, very organic!