I buy manure in bags from the GC, it's about £15 for 3 (from memory). I prefer as you can use it straight away and it doesn't smell as strong. I was also going to suggest a green plastic compost bin which has a lid you can sit on, which might have been handy for you. PS I'm now less than 5ft tall so I sympathise!!
Lizzie27 just for a giggle. We had a chest freeze some years ago and me only being small was cleaning it out and fell in head first but not all the way. I was neither in nor out feet flapping about. I couldn't get out till I managed to grab the broom and push myself up. I can laugh about it now but not at the time.
I thought a dustbin would also stop it getting wet when it rains plus the rats and mice might be able to get under it. I thought about a garden storage box like this one and thought I might get 2 or 3 125 ltr bags in there, the upside is I already have one and it will be empty once I've moved the remaining pots into the GH.
I stack my bags of leafmould and finished garden compost in a Keter chest somewhat like the one above, in wheelie bins, in a coal bunker and around the garden. Never enough space. If I get somewhere bigger I'll make a timber unit with front doors for easier unloading.
I mix up a 60L UN food barrel (the type that delis get olives and pickles in)at a time for sowing / pots. I clamp on the lid and roll the barrel round the lawn to mix.
I like the easy fun way of mixing your compost Reluctant_Gardener. I know what you mean about never enough space, seems like we outgrow our gardens to quick.
they arent attractive, but they just sit at the bottom of our garden, near the veg plot, never had rats,mice or anything, do have a cat poo in an open one earlier in the year when I didnt bother to fold the open end back in! stank!!!
@NannyBeach, I've never fallen in a chest freezer, you were lucky to get out when you did. It's baths I have trouble with now, need my OH to be within calling distance if I need help!
Lizzie27, I've found that with the bath, I have to turn over to get out bet even then it's a struggle as are the stairs. I don't like this getting old lark. I was on my own with three young children when I fell head first down into the freeze so they weren't much help I think they were all in the infant's or just into the junior school. All I can say is thank goodness for the broom. I no longer have an OH it's just my son and myself and I wouldn't ask him to help me, the sight of me might turn him of women for life lol.
@NannaBoo, I believe you can ask your local Council to install grab rails for free in the bathroom if you're having difficulty. Contact Age UK as well.
Lizzie27, we have a grab rail but my right shoulder won't let me pull and as for any real weight well it wouldn't work. Son has said next year we will have the bath taken out and changed to a wet room which will be great and he will be able to have a quick shower every morning before work, it will be great for me. I had the social services round to see about a stair lift and they said it wouldn't be possible as the stairs finish where my son's bedroom door starts and the other side there's not room either.
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I thought a dustbin would also stop it getting wet when it rains plus the rats and mice might be able to get under it. I thought about a garden storage box like this one
I mix up a 60L UN food barrel (the type that delis get olives and pickles in)at a time for sowing / pots. I clamp on the lid and roll the barrel round the lawn to mix.