A Tale of Two Compost Heaps
When we took over the garde, we inherited two piles of what can only loosely be described as compost. A couple of weeks ago, Julia and I did some compost redistribution (which is like income redistribution but more crumbly) and emptied the useable compost out of one of the heaps. Last weekend was the turn of the second heap. The evil grass-slime was both grassy and slimy, and looked like this:
By the time Rob and I had finished with it, having moved it from heap two to heap one and added plenty of shredded newspaper and compost activator, it looked more like this:
It's now covered up and starting to heat up nicely, so hopefully we've made something useful from the slime.
posted by Mad @ 3:17 pm
5 Comments:
Did you add worms? Lots of them? That helps the process.
No, but there were loads of the slimy little compost makers in heap one already, which I think is a good thing.
You don't need compost activator - just pee on it!
Peeing in the vicar's garden is not something I had on my "to do" list. Besides, it's a bloody big compost heap and would take one hell of a lot of wee! :-)
One of my close relatives, (I will let you guess who and is not my mother) when she is at home alone wee's into a pot and then empties it onto the compost heap.
I think me mum has 3 heaps running at the moment.
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