Brook – Page 9

Author: Brook

Nearly turning time again! Compost update

16/07/2018

compost heaps as of Saturday, but more buckets added since then! Lots of things happening here at the HCC! So much that I haven’t had time to update the blog, but I’ll catch up on that soon...

Compost update

11/07/2018

After sieving some of the finished compost last weekend, and rotating some of the semi finished compost back into the first bay, it’ll soon be time to turn over a section of the compost bin again....

We made a simple sieve and are now producing compost ‘fines’

08/07/2018
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I tend to be fairly ambitious with my composting, throwing in all sorts of stuff including items that I know will take a long time to break down. for instance, these twigs from the garden… The...

Fresh baby worms hard at work :)

05/07/2018

Just a quick note to say that the worms in the worm farm are absolutely loving the fruit pulp from Julie at the Capital Region Farmer’s market, as predicted 🙂

Compost update: still plenty of capacity

30/06/2018

It was great to meet contributor Alison yesterday who also composts at home but refers to that as ‘feeding the possums’ 🙂 I feel the same way about my attempts to grow vegetables in the...

How to avoid a stinky collection bucket

28/06/2018

Any organic waste collection service has to consider the probability of some unpleasant odours from time to time although unlike a ‘night soil’ collection this is far from inevitable! The...