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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!

Monday, 7 January 2013

Working in the garden

 Yet again it did not rain over the weekend, so we all got busy in the garden. Compostgirl gathered up a load of wet leaves and put them into the leaf mould bins, ready to rot down and make lovely soil conditioner for the veg patch.

 


Here she follows a fine old tradition of jumping up and down on the leaves!


The hens are still not too keen to venture far from us and tend to spend a lot of time in the barn, so I have put the Eglu house in there ( in case any hen wants to lay an egg) and also food and water for them.




For the last couple of months we have only been getting one or two eggs a day, and for the last two weeks less than a dozen a week but finally they girls are coming out of moult/winter darkness sulks and today we had three eggs! As one hen has given up due to old age, three are moulting and not laying that is 100% laying rate from the other three so well done girls :-)

Yet again we were rewarded with another lovely sunset :-)

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4 comments:

  1. The hens hatched last spring have begun laying and we've gone from 1 egg every other day to 7 or 8 daily. An abundance of riches!

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  2. That's exactly what we were doing yesterday, raking up the soggy leaves that is, although by the time I finished I didn't have the energy to climb into the leaf mulch basket and jump up and down!!

    We did overfill it very nicely and have enough over to give a good foot deep layer to both the worm beds (they are about 1m wide by 3m long), hard work but very rewarding, needless to say we slept VERY well last night.

    I'm currently getting about 15 eggs a day from approx 24 laying birds so I'm very happy :-)

    I'm looking forward to our first goose eggs in the next couple of months from Harry, Larry and Mo, and NO I'm not mad despite their names they ARE girls...lol!

    Sue xx.

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  3. Nice to get some jobs done while the rains stopped! We did a bit of gardening today but with the little one there was only so much I could do!

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  4. That's a lovely sunset. We only get one egg most days. Our Rhodes Rock lays soft shelled eggs and we don't always get there in time. When we do they are only fit for cooking with, not really eating as just eggs.

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