As much as I enjoy a bit of creosoting, doing the compost heap is not the most joyful of jobs but, as they say, someone has to do it! A once a year job which, due to a combination of incessantly wet and cold weather and until February a distinct presence of compost, means that the window of opportunity has been smaller than usual this year. Anyway, having now done it, Chris will turn last year's compost into the freshly painted bay and then I'll give the left hand bay the same treatment and it will be ready to receive this year's vegetable and garden waste.
Whilst anything too woody or pernicious is burnt, the ash is returned to the compost heap along with grass cuttings, soiled chicken newspapers and all soft garden waste. After turning and covering, it will be left for a year by which time it will have reduced down to half its volume. Unlike Monty, we have better things to do than turn compost every 5 minutes! Patience makes perfect compost and, early next year, these contents will be ready to top dress all borders. Ain't nature magic!!
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