It appears that I haven’t even said who I am in my blog! My name is Helen and I am a retired nurse – I took early retirement due to ill-health.
Enough said about that. One of the most important things in our garden is our composting. Over the years we have produced some excellent compost, although it must be admitted that it is full of seeds etc! We don’t use a hot composting method – ours just sits and rots down over a few seasons until we investigate and find some beautiful compost at the bottom of the pile.
We have two composting areas and both are needing renovation. Today Mark is working on the top compost heap. He took all the wood and materials up the garden yesterday. Work begins in earnest today. Photos will be taken and shown!!
We also have a wormery, which we neglect terribly, yet it seems to go on year after year reducing our kitchen waste into a rich worm-castings compost and lots of liquid manure too. At first we molly-coddled it, but not any more. Photos of it might be less than edifying as it does cause some people to recoil when they see all those worms in action! However, it doesn’t smell, and the worst we get from it is a lot of tiny fruit flies in the summer.
Here are some photos of our compost heaps – more to come
https://pygardens.co.uk/garden-projects/compost-heaps/
and here is a link to the latest edifice – the new compost boxes built by Mark and John.
https://pygardens.co.uk/garden-projects/compost-heaps/136-2/
That was a good idea to use concrete gravel boards under the bottom slats in that new compost heap! Packing stones in the fence post holes also stops them rotting away at the base. Whole thing looks very functional, good job well done, so this weekend is filling it up with layers of dry and green then… ? …the enjoyable bit 🙂
Especially as the weather’s looking a shade better, loving the weather widget :ok
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Thank you for your tips. Yes, getting it filled will take a bit of time, but we are starting to create some composting material. Just realised this is you, Clive. Don’t think Mark used any concrete gravel boards. But do keep the tips coming as we appreciate them. Jenny put up the weather widget – it is good – I go to it if I want to know the local weather!