Composting

At last Spring is approaching! Instead of looking out at the garden from the inside of the house during the long winter months, we can now finally get out there and get going!

First job, to spread our homemade food waste compost on the vegetable patch, which is mainly rhubarb (that comes back better every year) and berries (red, black and blue currants). It’s taken a while to perfect the art of collecting all our food scraps and turning it into compost. However, with a bit of help by adding leaves and grass cuttings, we have finally got a decent amount to spread this year.

“Where's there's muck there's brass”. Well, we wont be making any money out of this mucky effort but hopefully the vegetables will appreciate our endeavors and respond in kind!

One tip: no citrus fruits, meat, poultry or fish in the compost, which you should be eating and not throwing away anyway! Also watch out for plants that are toxic to other plants, like rhubarb leaves, which is somewhat ironic in our case, as we have loads of those!