Various neighbours have given me windfalls too and it's beefing up my compost. I need as much green as I can find as I don't have grass. I have just added another dustbin to the collection, so I have a good array of stores and bins now - flexible and useful.
I'd be stumped without all the grass I get from neighbour's, in fact it's been a tough year being so dry I've not had enough to really push the system to it's limits.
My systems goes in waves - with big green compost input in spring - from uprooted wallflowers, and masses of fgmns etc; then again in autumn, with cosmos, dahlias, sweetpeas etc. Between those points it's mostly kitchen green waste. I don't create that much end product (compared to those with large tracts of land and lawn etc) but it all helps and I enjoy the process. I love planting chard in ex-chard and dahlias in ex-dahlias. There's a kind of amazing magic in it.
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the chard becomes you, my dear arises and is gone into your depths to rise again as mole, lash, lip.
Hold it to your cheek green on green. Feel the veins, skin on thin skin.
@Fire I also love the feeling of nothing leaving the garden and it all going back for the next round of plants, and also an awful lot of extra stuff from elsewhere.
Spent an hour raking more of the cut meadow grass and adding it to another bin with the tree mulch. The bin I filled last night was 50°c when I went out 1st thing but is now Damn these wrong way round pictures 🤬
Excellent overview of the composting process Mike.
I had the best compost ever when I begged a bucket of goat manure from my neighbour in return for a favour. Really turbo-charged it. Sadly, she’s been rather possessive of it ever since, since she realised it would be great for their not-so-secret cannabis farm 😆
I also had the worst experience ever when given a load of donkey field droppings, totally weed infested.
I was given some tiger* manure (possibly lion, I forget). It kept the local cats/foxes away, but was full of maggots and didn't rot down.
*This is true by the way, my brother in law is a zoo keeper. He can get elephant manure if needed, but we can't find a trailer big enough.
@hiacedrifter You''d really only want herbivore manure, not meat eaters (with the exception of chickens and ducks). The manure is totally different if all they are eating is vegetation. Poo from horses, cows, elephants, is basically processed, enriched grass. It's therefore doesn't smell that bad - unlike cat poo.
@hiacedrifter You''d really only want herbivore manure, not meat eaters (with the exception of chickens and ducks). The manure is totally different if all they are eating is vegetation. Poo from horses, cows, elephants, is basically processed, enriched grass. It's therefore doesn't smell that bad - unlike cat poo.
I'm not entirely sure how I ended up with the big cat poo, I certainly didn't ask for it
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arises and is gone into your depths
to rise again as mole, lash, lip.
Hold it to your cheek
green on green. Feel the veins,
skin on thin skin.
Are you not delicious?
Spent an hour raking more of the cut meadow grass and adding it to another bin with the tree mulch. The bin I filled last night was 50°c when I went out 1st thing but is now
Damn these wrong way round pictures 🤬
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
*This is true by the way, my brother in law is a zoo keeper. He can get elephant manure if needed, but we can't find a trailer big enough.