Highfield Farm Garden (Monmouthshire, Wales)
I am lagging behind with my England tour posts, not that there is an urgency, but I know if I don't get them recorded and organized, my feeble memory will begin to muddle them. The three previous gardens ( Hidcote , Kiftsgate , and Bourton House ) were visited on the first day of the tour. Day 2 took us across the border into Wales, where we saw two gardens. Our group (about 25 people) rode in a comfortable bus, and everyone kept saying that it was much smaller than the buses they normally used. I thought it was fine, and most of the time, I had my aisle to myself. Unlike the Japan trip, where our mode of transportation changed daily, we kept the same bus during the entire trip. I soon learned that it was best for my mental health to sit on the right side of the bus. The country lanes of England are indeed as narrow as they appear on television, and the ever-present hedgerows grow right next to the roadside. Watching these hedgerows fly by within an inch of your window...
It's such a satisfying thump when the mulch hits the bed of the truck. As long a only the view out the rear window disappears all is well. It's great to get all that mulch so fast. Actually I think it's less stress to be in the truck than to see the action from a distance.
ReplyDeleteWe get our mulch this way all the time. I can't imagine having to shovel it all INTO the truck and then having to unload it too. UGH.
ReplyDeleteDo you have to pay for your mulch?? It would be worth it if it was free.
Lisa, it is free but it is rare to have someone load it for you. You usually have to load yourself. A lot of work!
ReplyDeleteExcellent. A truck of the good stuff loaded for free. I know how much work a JCB or similar saves!
ReplyDeleteOur city provided equipment to load trucks once when the compost site was new to encourage people to take some home. Now, it's shovel, shovel, shovel. It is nerve racking but they know better than you how close they are to your truck. Hope it makes your garden grow!!!
ReplyDeleteThe only way we get it loaded for us is to hand the man some cash!
ReplyDeletePhillip, you need to ride with me out to the landfill to show me where to get a load. My big Ram1500 will take a while to fill up and unloaded. Our landfill in Tuscumbia doesn't offer it. Sheffield utilities offered it at one time & I heard they would load. I need call them. Have fun using it. Mary
ReplyDeleteOh if only I had a truck! Had some delivered a years ago, I'm just now getting through all of it.
ReplyDeleteVery cool that the city worker helped you out; that would never happen in my neck of the woods.
I miss the south!