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Compost
Spent a happy hour or so down the allotment this morning spreading compost around the spinach and beetroot. The spinach was planted by the previous allotment holder, but it's been cropping pretty steadily all year and is still going strong even now. So, I figured it was time I started actually feeding it!
The compost heap we started back in March has matured nicely now. I'm spreading it all over the place - I'm removing the bigger twigs and tossing them into the new heap, but otherwise it's lovely and crumbly. Mildly amusing to find a long piece of chain stitch thread. Earlier in the year, I put an old cotton towel onto the heap - obviously the thread was nylon as that is all that is left now. My old silk shirt and a cotton t-shirt have vanished without trace.
Any fabric will compost as long as it is made of natural fibres. Don't put it on as a screwed up lump, spread it out like a blanket and pile the usual kitchen/garden waste on top of it. We're also composting a fair quantity of cardboard. Packaging material, egg boxes, toilet roll centres, cereal packets, etc.
Next time I go down, I must remember to take a load of newspaper. Newspaper, preferably with grass clippings or compost on top to hold it down, makes an excellent mulch and I need to put a good layer around my blackcurrant bushes to keep the weeds down.
The compost heap we started back in March has matured nicely now. I'm spreading it all over the place - I'm removing the bigger twigs and tossing them into the new heap, but otherwise it's lovely and crumbly. Mildly amusing to find a long piece of chain stitch thread. Earlier in the year, I put an old cotton towel onto the heap - obviously the thread was nylon as that is all that is left now. My old silk shirt and a cotton t-shirt have vanished without trace.
Any fabric will compost as long as it is made of natural fibres. Don't put it on as a screwed up lump, spread it out like a blanket and pile the usual kitchen/garden waste on top of it. We're also composting a fair quantity of cardboard. Packaging material, egg boxes, toilet roll centres, cereal packets, etc.
Next time I go down, I must remember to take a load of newspaper. Newspaper, preferably with grass clippings or compost on top to hold it down, makes an excellent mulch and I need to put a good layer around my blackcurrant bushes to keep the weeds down.