Restoring fertility for next year

I live on a sand dune, so applying plant food is a continuous chore.
Now that winter has hunkered down, and there are less plant related activities, I’m expending energy on infrastructure projects.

There is a local stables here in Otaki that is desperate to get rid of horse manure.
I Pop over and fill the trailer.

All the garden beds get an application.

Dumping the manure around the plants flattens down the surrounding grass like a mulch .

This row of manuka now has less competition and a blanket of fertilizer

  

Black birds regularly bury the young lavender plants as they fossick so I’ve had to collar some of the plants with cut up milk bottle.

The fire is lit most nights so there is plenty of ash that needs to  be disposed of.

A couple of days ago, this bed was covered with a matt grey blanket.
 The Black birds have now turned most of it over.