Compost

[ailbhe]

Our wormery has failed again. Basically, the kind and quantity of food waste we generate is beyond a wormery. So I've ordered a couple of bokashi bins to use in rotation, and some new worms to hopefully finish off what's failing to compost in the actual wormery. We've also started digging out the raw food waste/garden waste composter and we're getting lovely dirt out of it for our friends with gardens.

Wish us luck.

Comments

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

I've never tried a wormery - would like to because I think you can use cooked food waste, right? We do have a normal compost bin, which just about handles the fruit and veg waste from our household, and finally (after taking about 2 years to settle in, and us learning how and what to feed it) produces excellent compost, though not enough for our tiny but intensively planted garden.

Funny, I'm so surprised that you don't have a garden!

[ailbhe]

We have a garden for playing in but have had to admit defeat with growing things, though we hope that this year might be the year we grow real grass. I think we might do fairly well with food-from-big-plant-pots and a grassy bit for playing on; I can't see either Rob or me learning to be proper gardeners any time soon. In principle I'd love to, in practice it doesn't happen.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

I am becoming a bigger and bigger fan of growing things in pots. Easier to defend from predators and small children. And they look so nice, too. I am gardening reasonably steadily this year; in previous years I've tended to have a planting frenzy then not kept up with the needs of the resulting plants. This year, started late but am doing well. Next year, I'm going to make a plan, and do staggered planting, and all sorts.