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Welcome to The Compost Bin, which contains my musings on my life and things which interest me.

I live in Herefordshire with my husband and daughter; we have 4 acres of land which contains a woodland, polytunnel, small orchard, garden and veg plot. We grow our own organic produce and make lots of cider, wine, jam and chutney. We also make a lot of compost. We share our lives with 11 Chickens, 3 Cats, 3 Guinea Pigs and assorted wildlife. We try our best to live a more self reliant lifestyle, growing and making and fixing and mending and re-using and re-cycling stuff, if we can.

I used to be a Research Scientist, but that was many years ago. I now work as a freelance environmental educator/writer/forest school leader and community artist; I also spend a lot of time volunteering as a Master Composter and Master Gardener, helping people make compost and grow veg at home or at school.

I started blogging because I love to write about the things which interest me. Whether it's something I have done in the garden, an article for a magazine, a review of websites or equipment I use, a training course I have attended or "just" my daily routine - I love to write.

I hope you find something to interest you in The Compost Bin - remember to click on the photos to make them full size!

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Thursday thoughts and broken eggs

As usual in the morning had a wander around the garden , making sure everything was ok. The Polytunnel is at its most prolific at this time of year, it needs lots of water and food and tender loving care. I usually check on it after I have fed the hens, collected their eggs and let them out!






and the Sweetcorn is busy "doing its stuff" ...pollen drifting down from the flowers to land and (hopefully) give us lots of lovely Corn on the Cob..... :-))

Today's haul from the garden and polytunnel

2 Kg of courgettes
4 Kg of Tomatoes


500 g Aubergines
1 Green pepper - the first one ready from the Polytunnel!
and the MOST PERFECT BEEF Tomato ..weighing in at 250g ALONE!



Eggs...hmm well we had a bit of a disaster there...Compostgirl and I went out to get the eggs and brought them back in to the kitchen, whereupon Compostgirl knocked the egg bucket over and the 2 eggs smashed on the floor......
Ah well the kittens had fun lapping it up...I wonder if I can get them to clean up the rest of the kitchen floor with their tongues?
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