Where there's muck there's... well, muck...

Having decided that a flowerbed full of horse manure wasn't likely to win us any prizes at the summer show (although it might win a Turner prize) it was time to deal with it.

The trouble was, the original manure has been dropped on a black plastic sheet and had very little drainage, so as I dug through the pile it got rather smelly, and being stood on wet plastic, rather slippy. Surprisingly I didn't fall over...

Once it was raked out I decided to leave it to dry in the sun for the rest of the day as that will make it easier to move it to its final position tomorrow. This will allow us to tackle the flowerbed properly, ie: dig it over, weed and plant up.