Showing posts with label composting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label composting. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 January 2013

A Day In Which I Find Black Gold!

Wow! We have had two compost bins out of three cooking away with a combination of kitchen scraps/peelings, newspaper, coffee grinds, brown cardboard, newspaper, hen's bedding, last year's grass clippings and chicken poo. We turn the compost regularly with a pitchfork to maintain heat and even cooking. Keeping your mixture fairly even of greens to brown seems to aid effective composting. Keeping it not too wet, but not too dry either is key.
Today, we riddled out this...




There's half a bin full and that should more than cover my home veg patch, once it's finished