[gregmcalister]

When I look back to this time last year when I had just taken on my allotment I never thought in a million years that I would get such satisfaction from a pile of compost!

I have two dalek bins - one at home and one on the allotment. The one on the allotment hasn't really taken off and looks a bit muddy but I decided to get some air into the bin at home and get rid of some of the fruit flies.  When I started to turn the heap it was a revelation and I found it all dark and crumbly and looking like...well like proper compost!  

The funny thing is I spent more time trying to perfect the compost on the allotment and the one at home was just filled with grass cuttings, shredded newspaper, autumn leaves and kitchen waste and was never turned.  I can't wait to bag it up and take it down to the allotment!

Anyway sorry for getting all emotional over a heap of rotting plant waste but it's funny how that means more to me than my new plastic greenhouse that I've got to put up!!!

[lucywil]

it's amazing isn't it? i couldn't quite believe it either!!!

[compostqueen]

 good stuff innit.  Once you love compost you know you've arrived into this strange new world.  You begin to strive for the perfect compost - a pinch of that, a dollop of the other, a soupcon of tea leaves  

[Bombers]

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

 

[gregmcalister]

I'm going to have loads of comfrey this year to use, I'm going to start collecting the kitchen waste from the office and I'll probably gather more seaweed when I'm at the beach so I have high hopes for this year's compost production.

[compostqueen]

comfrey and nettles make good activators for your compo as does male wee, I used lady water cos my husband won't oblige     Misery guts!
Kitchen waste compost I like cos I find it rots down and you get a quicker result than lotty compost but I started taking kitchen stuff to the plot to speed up performance there.  I make lots of compost  

[WhippetMaster]

He takes the pi** so you don't have to!!!

[wighty]

Sorry to change the subject but Whippetmaster, that is not a whippet in your avatar is it?  It looks my Fudge who is a Boxer,

[WhippetMaster]

I know, whippets to most people don't look either cute, cuddly, funny, attractive or intelligent. Boxers look comical and besides I can't get my whippet or greyhound to stand still for 10 seconds whilst I put sunglasses on him.......

So I poached the avatar from the internet!!!

[wighty]

KNEW IT, can spot one a mile off, we had four but all now sadly passed on, would love another one but we work all day and it just would not be fair.

[matron]

Sorry, back to compost. We have piled up all the stuff we have dug, cut, chopped down and generally cleared away over the last couple of years. Now there is a pile of lovely compost - it's like magic.  

[compostqueen]

Looks great when it's cooked.  I put mine through the rotary sieve. Not necessary but it just makes it finer to growing seeds in

[wighty]

Sorry,behaving now,  had to get the boxer bit offmy chest, but why when I spread the compost from my dalek do I get potatoes, tomatoes and pumpkins that I never planted, they take over, but they are better than the ones I've really planted.

[jack russell]

I am just starting a new compost heap using all my kitchen scraps grass cuttings nettles comfry etc. should the top be covered for better results or left open :?:

[compostqueen]

cover it to keep the heat in.