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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, 28 February 2013

Seeds and shoots


Two weeks ago my Organic Gardening catalogue seed order arrived - seeds, potatoes, onion and shallot sets.


This meant it was time to clean out the porch, get out the heated propagators and get planting :-)








Lots more lovely seeds have arrived since then - from More Veg, The Real Seed Co and from Suttons, to add to my seedy mountain.


And 10 days after I sowed the tomatoes, look what has happened :-)

How are your seeds doing?
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3 comments:

  1. Marvellous! After just 10 days too!
    I hope mine show the same will for life.

    Linda

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  2. It's winter seedlings for us here so I have broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts all up and broad beans and garlic to plant out as soon as my beds are built and up and running. My corn, tomatoes, capsicums and zucchini (corgettes) are all still doing their thing and it's a race ow against the first frosts. I am looking forward so much to the cooler months though as I will be focussing very much on compost, compost and even more compost, ready for spring planting in October. :)

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  3. Still no sun yet - it's been weeks and weeks of grey so I won't be starting anything just yet, but this month is the month I am beginning to plot and plan. The potatoes are chitting and I put the shallots and winter lettuce seed under cover at least so I feel like I'm doing something heh.

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