After the recent rose pruning, we now fertilised the roses and mulched them with horse manure. The fertiliser is a mixture of chemical and organic fertiliser, which is tilled and ploughed into the soil at the base of the rose plants. The horse manure in the compost bin is then mulched.
先日のバラの剪定のあと、今度はバラに肥料をやり、馬糞堆肥でマルチングをしました. 肥料は化成肥料と有機肥料を混ぜて、バラの株元の土を耕して混ぜ込んでいます. コンポスト容器にある馬糞堆肥をその上にかぶせてマルチングにしています.
Every autumn I visit a nearby riding club and get horse manure. The horse manure is piled up in a big pile in the field, from where we shovel it into bags and drive it to our house. It is then put into a compost bin at the back of the garden.
As the horse manure is immature, we mix it with prunings, weeded grass and vegetable scraps from the garden to make compost. The compost bin is divided into three compartments: horse manure on the left, compost in the middle and on the right, but now the middle compartment is filled with mature compost and the right compartment is filled with plant waste from the garden and kitchen.
毎年秋に近所にある乗馬クラブを訪ねて、馬糞をもらいます. 馬糞は野積みされて大きな山になっていますので、そこからスコップで袋に入れて車で家まで運びます. そして庭の奥にあるコンポスト容器に入れます.
馬糞は未成熟なので、庭の剪定くずや除草した草、野菜くずなどと混ぜて堆肥を作ります. コンポスト容器は3つの部屋に分けていて、左側に馬糞、真ん中と右が堆肥ですが、今は真ん中は完熟した堆肥になっていて、右側に庭や台所から出た植物のくずを入れています.
It was a beautiful day yesterday.
We went to a local riding club to get horse manure.
Two people were riding and some were watching them.
昨日はとてもいい天気でした.
地元の乗馬クラブに出かけて馬糞をいただきました.
二人馬に乗ってあり、見物しているひともいました.
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| Prune before pruning 剪定前のプルーン |
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| A telescopic tree pruner 高枝はさみ |
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| After pruning 剪定後 |
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| Blueberry before pruning 剪定前のブルーベリー |
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| After pruning 剪定後 |
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| A huge heap of 'treasure' presented from horses |
