• My compost bin has been listing more and more over the last few months, decided to empty it to have a look at the contents and then relocate the bin a couple of metres to the left on a flatter spot... Wow, what a micro-environment! A family of mice, worms aplenty and every insect known to man... Wasn't very good compost, some leaves and twigs hadn't rotted down but I hadn't been layering properly when I started anyway... I put everything back in with a layer of shredded paper every six inches, I'm hoping this will do the trick over the next six months and I'll be able to use the compost in a new veggie bed...

    My veggie patch still isn't very successful, rocket and bokchoi have been great, got a few green beans and snow peas, maybe a handful... Courgettes were a disaster as were the peppers and the aubergines have flowered but that's about it... I'm giving them another week... Got a little bit of broccolini this week, tasty but tiny yield...

    Sowed lots of cavolo nero and they've sprouted OK, hoping for good things as I've got a commercial juicer arriving any day now... I'm a shit gardener... One generation, that's all it takes to lose the knack... I've let my whole family down... 😂

  • Anytime you need a leak either do it on the compost or into something you can pour it from into the compost. A wee bit of wee now and again helps with the compost breakdown. And no, I'm not taking the piss.

  • into something you can pour it from into the compost

    ..as in: when it's inconvenient to directly piss onto the compost as it's raining or something, so you piss in a flower vase you have standing nearby, so you can "pour it from into the compost" later?

  • Apparently the first wee of the day is the best too.... fuck knows what the neighbour's might think. Hopefully wont wake up to a lawn of frozen sausages

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