Little tiny weeny carrots

10 May 2008

So now the carrots have appeared too. As of Saturday morning I have 12 broad beans, 5 potatoes and a little feathery line of carrot seedlings. Oh, and a couple of beautifully compacted areas of earth where I keep walking on it to carry out my inspections.

Last night Mum helped me mix my compost up a bit. It’s a good idea to aerate it, mix things together and spread the heat around. I have a few piles of grass clippings in there that will be generating more heat than other elements, so I wanted to share that decomposing magic a little.

Now, other people may well have bought themselves a compost bin. Perhaps even one of those compost bins that you can tumble on its own stand. Not me. I bought a water butt – partly because it was one of the few things available that wasn’t bigger than me.

The “bonus” about this water butt however is that I can unscrew the tap at the bottom of it to let any accumulated liquid and confused woodlice drain out. And when I did that last night for the first time I discovered that this dark brown liquid absolutely stinks. But anyway, once the evil compost wee was disposed of I manhandled the heavy bin out onto the lawn, where Mum and I turned it onto its side and rolled it up and down the grass, tumbling everything together inside. Well, it will have given the worms something to think about if nothing else.