November twenty third, 2021 – Autumn gardening
Right here is my picket beehive formed compost bin which is correct close to the pavement and intrigues passers by who surprise if there are bees in it. It’s not an unattractive factor to have in your backyard.
Beehive compost bin
And right here is one and not using a lid which is tiers from pervious bins simply piled up and up. It does such a superb job that I can forgive its quite rustic look.
Picket compost bin
As a result of I need to make as a lot as compost as attainable I’ve purchased a container on Amazon, known as a 799 litre Ciskotu Expandable Outside Composter. Right here it’s:
An ingenious new solution to include compost materials
Admittedly it’s no backyard decoration however it can do the job and never too apparent to passers by or from our entrance room. It kind of blends in and anyway, I find it irresistible. I’ve lined it with cardboard and bits of outdated carpet to maintain it heat.
you get the image.
Add several types of stuff in layers
Compost combination
A cardboard field right here and a bucket of grass there. Nothing hangs round ready to go in. That’s the place having 3 bins work out so nicely.
Acer leaves
I sweep up the loveliest leaves from timber in my highway, particularly these acer leaves that I wait for each autumn. They’re stunning to the touch and to have a look at and I add them in huge armfuls to my compost bins, once more in layers, not .
Then I do nothing however wait. I don’t combine it or flip it or disturb it in any means.
I simply go away it. As a result of I don’t need it to get too dry, I carry the lid when it’s raining.
I get this beautiful darkish brown crumbly stuff stuffed with residing organisms. A photograph can’t actually do it justice. It simply seems to be like soil but it surely’s as crumbly as a bag of compost. It’s do-it-yourself, it’s free and it’s lively.
From expertise I now empty simply annually round now and chuck the compost that’s been made onto the borders.
In every bin the underside half can be brown crumbly compost and the highest half won’t but have decomposed so is put again in for subsequent time.
I apply it to the borders now as a result of it’s the one this time of yr that there’s sufficient naked soil displaying. In Spring and summer season each inch of soil can be coated in greenery.
I do know all of us get our thrills in numerous methods however actually, there’s a variety of pleasure available chucking stuff in a bin and watching it flip into black gold.
Thanks for studying and for those who’d prefer to subscribe simply pop your electronic mail into the field on the prime of the web page.
Nonetheless not too late to plant tulips by the best way…….. I’ve written about that right here
Finest needs to all, Julie
What sort of compost bin?
Right here is my picket beehive formed compost bin which is correct close to the pavement and intrigues passers by who surprise if there are bees in it. It’s not an unattractive factor to have in your backyard.
Beehive compost bin
And right here is one and not using a lid which is tiers from pervious bins simply piled up and up. It does such a superb job that I can forgive its quite rustic look.
Picket compost bin
As a result of I need to make as a lot as compost as attainable I’ve purchased a container on Amazon, known as a 799 litre Ciskotu Expandable Outside Composter. Right here it’s:
An ingenious new solution to include compost materials
Admittedly it’s no backyard decoration however it can do the job and never too apparent to passers by or from our entrance room. It kind of blends in and anyway, I find it irresistible. I’ve lined it with cardboard and bits of outdated carpet to maintain it heat.
What makes a compost combination?
- Mushy inexperienced stuff, twiggy brown bits, something that can break down.
- Grass clippings from a neighbour who has a garden
- Raw kitchen waste however not bread
- All cardboard and brown paper
- Odds and ends – egg bins, paper primarily based packaging
- Twigs, useless reduce flowers, some autumn leaves, unsoiled wooden primarily based cat litter, straw,
you get the image.
What I do with the heap
Add several types of stuff in layers
Compost combination
A cardboard field right here and a bucket of grass there. Nothing hangs round ready to go in. That’s the place having 3 bins work out so nicely.
Acer leaves
I sweep up the loveliest leaves from timber in my highway, particularly these acer leaves that I wait for each autumn. They’re stunning to the touch and to have a look at and I add them in huge armfuls to my compost bins, once more in layers, not .
Then I do nothing however wait. I don’t combine it or flip it or disturb it in any means.
I simply go away it. As a result of I don’t need it to get too dry, I carry the lid when it’s raining.
What I get out of it
I get this beautiful darkish brown crumbly stuff stuffed with residing organisms. A photograph can’t actually do it justice. It simply seems to be like soil but it surely’s as crumbly as a bag of compost. It’s do-it-yourself, it’s free and it’s lively.
From expertise I now empty simply annually round now and chuck the compost that’s been made onto the borders.
In every bin the underside half can be brown crumbly compost and the highest half won’t but have decomposed so is put again in for subsequent time.
I apply it to the borders now as a result of it’s the one this time of yr that there’s sufficient naked soil displaying. In Spring and summer season each inch of soil can be coated in greenery.
I do know all of us get our thrills in numerous methods however actually, there’s a variety of pleasure available chucking stuff in a bin and watching it flip into black gold.
Thanks for studying and for those who’d prefer to subscribe simply pop your electronic mail into the field on the prime of the web page.
Nonetheless not too late to plant tulips by the best way…….. I’ve written about that right here
Finest needs to all, Julie