Moles are active in Spring

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- their little heaps are free of weed roots and can be scooped up, mixed with whatever nutrients you have handy, and used for potting compost in the greenhouse.
I am sealing some in old compost bags to heat up and kill any weed seeds this summer.
When people were not so affluent in the 30s no one could afford bags of professionally made peat based potting compost, or cars to fetch it in. My mother used to send me over the field with a bucket and shovel to collect Mole heap soil. Later on when sheep were in the field I used to go again to collect sheep manure to put in a sack, tie the top and suspend it in the water butt to make Tomato plant food.
I suppose the ratio was correct doing it that way.

• 23 Feb, 2013
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