Mucking About
I can’t think of a better way to spend a Bank Holiday than by building a composting area. Seriously! I’ve been itching to get this part of the garden sorted out, compost being close to my heart:>) I had been creating piles of ’stuff’ all over the garden ready for the day I had a compost area. And it just arrived!
We were lucky enough to get hold of some palletts, so we have been recycling into the bargain. Since we are so close to the chalk on this hillside, driving anything into the ground is a lot of hard graft for Bobbie. We needed eight support posts and this meant that the sledge hammer had another outing to push the metposts into the ground.
Thanks to the stalwart work of Sally and Mark’s bunnies, Delilah and Harry (see Sally’s blog for pictures of said bunnies), the first heap is almost complete.
This also means that we are able to conduct something of an experiment on the cornstarch bag front. Sally is collecting all the bunny droppings along with the rest of the bedding and putting it into cornstarch compostable bags which she brings over once a week. Having just moved a pile of them, we found that the bottom of the pile was rotting down rather nicely. However, it is obvious that the bags need to be wet in order to break down into good compost.
The heap is a layered platter of bunny muck, mown grass, and wet cardboard interspersed with kitchen and garden waste as available. Delicious! I’m looking forward to seeing the results:>)
