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| After - two bags of compost to do anything i want to with |
What a day! Finally got to the compost bin. This was the deal. I had this compost heap now since i moved in but at various stages we had just simply not been able to look after it properly. So, for instance, i never really had proper walls and while i had dug it out at least once, i never really understood what made a good bin. Over the years i have learnt how to make good compost and in fact good compost sorta just made itself eventually, but it was now time to finally get it in shape.
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| Digging out the heap |
I knew this would happen: i would start digging the heap and then i would run out of space to put the compost i had dug out. It was such a mess at first. Then i looked in the shed and found several bags which i could just put the compost in. So i did. It filled four bags and then a large wooden tub. There was a heap on the ground beside it but soon it was all done. It took be about two and a half hours.
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| Viola! |
Now it was time to put it back together again. So first you need to make the walls of the bin, Followed by the bottom having air, then branches, followed by soil/brown matter or old compost, then green new cuttings, the watering. Before i put on the green new cuttings, i also put on seaweed. I built up about six layers this way.
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| The garden pond |
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| The violas |
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| My overactive lovage. Being tamed for the first time ever. |
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| Parsley and coriander and bergamont and honey suckle |
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| So.... seed trays... are a waste of time |
For the longest time i thought i was useless. I have since decided that if you want to seed anything do it in single pots because THIS. Seed trays are too shallow and the roots of the seedlings get entangled and you are supposed to prick the feckers out but what happens is that they have all started melding with each other. So getting them out get ends up killing them. These stupid seed trays have no drainage in them either. Also they get too hot or too cold because they have these covers. So my learning is DO NOT USE THEM. Maybe someone else knows how to use them. NOT ME.
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| Ugh |
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A something is eating my clematis. It is the only thing
in the garden being eaten by non humans. |
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| My hidy pond |
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| As the compost is being built up |
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| There it is, the final heap... ain't she sweet? |
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Compost bags next to it ready to be used for anything i need to use them for.
Belfast City Council give these green waste bags FREE. |
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Dahlias, peas and i also replanted my tarragon.
They needed a sunnier spot. |
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The lettuce patch is doing well.
I am going to interplant it with onions. |
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