Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Cleaning the Gabriel Ash mini greenhouse

Some of you may remember I was given a lovely  Gabriel Ash wall standing mini greenhouse to review, back in 2014

Sadlly due to   being bitten by a Blandford fly   and having to be hospitalised, the mini greenhouse didn't get put together until 2015.

It's bee   moved around the patio  a couple of times, but settled into it's current position about 1 years ago.

I've found it invaluable to be a half way house between seedlings that need to be in the porch and plants that can go into the cold frames inside the polytunnel, before being finally planted out in the polytunnel.

It's also a good greenhouse for herbs and overwintering plants.

Anyway, it gets used as a bit of a dumping ground for stuff overwinter, and hasn't had a good clean inside and out for several years so, as today has been bright and sunny I got cleaning.

I emptied out various pots and trays last night and put them in the polytunnel.

(Which is one of the next big jobs for me to do , giving it a good tidy up, and washing the cover!)

Today, Compostman took out the top panes of glass, which were absolutely filthy, and with them out I could get inside the greenhouse to scrub all the glass.

I scrubbed inside and out, as well as cleaning the wooden shelves.

I got VERY wet and splattered with dirty water!

All back together, nice and clean , ready for plants 😀

Grass mown yesterday, and when I'd finished getting wet and dirty  I sat in the sun and listened to the birdsong.

I do so love it here.

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