The Circle of Life

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Make your own compost 🙂

Save all your raw fruit and vegetable peelings, apple cores, tea bags, soapnut shells, etc etc

and take them outside to your compost bin (any container will do but make sure it’s got drainage holes in the bottom)

Toss your ‘green waste’ in there, (ie raw fruit & veg waste)

but also add some ‘brown waste’ (such as brown paper, black and white printed paper like newspapers or old paperback pages (no colour print), dead leaves) every so often otherwise you’ll end up with a wet soggy, stinky mess.  You want about 2 parts ‘green’ to 1 part ‘brown’ according to the science 🙂

Then eventually it will rot down to something moist and earthy, just teaming with baby earthworms (I don’t know where they came from) and ready to host your new plants.  Don’t ask me how long this took, I didn’t time it, but it was probably about a year.  We just eventually thought it looked composty and tipped it out of the bin and there you have it.  Click here if you want advice from experts 😀

Now you can pot it …

… sow some seeds in it, …

… and in a few days (this is less than 2 weeks later) your old vegetables will be providing you with new vegetables 🙂

I’d better thin these 😉

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22 responses to “The Circle of Life”

  1. Sarah Avatar

    I can’t imagine not composting. I had a big “worm bin” – the tiger worms came by post, I think. We moved it successfully from the UK to Ireland in 2000, but the move from Galway to our present home didn’t go so well. There was a lot of smelly liquid (we called it “worm wee”even though that’s not terribly accurate) in the bottom that leaked over my husband’s car. The car stank for months and was quite an embarrassment. 🙂 I just use ordinary compost bins now.

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    1. I wonder why they sell worms for composting – the worms just arrive by themselves in our compost. I don’t know how they get in there, but there’s loads of them. It’s magical 😀

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      1. Sarah Avatar

        It was a closed system. Worms couldn’t find their own way in. It was supposed to be more efficient and have less problems than the usual method. It also meant that you could draw off the “worm wee” to use as liquid fertiliser. I find the ordinary method perfectly adequate in a big garden so that’s what I do now.

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        1. Ha ha ha 😀 I never dreamed I’d have a conversation about worm wee 🙂

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        2. Sarah Avatar

          😀 Anytime you want a weird conversation just let me know…

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        3. Ha ha ha 😀 will do 😉

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  2. writingpoetry23 Avatar
    writingpoetry23

    How remarkable!

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  3. Animalista Untamed Avatar

    I LOVE composting. Our compost has transformed the soil in our garden over the last 10 years. A couple of tips to would-be composters: you can probably get a compost bin from your local council. Don’t be tempted to get one that’s too big – it’s amazing how much your stuff sinks down as it’s being transformed. A smaller one helps to keep the heat in which is what you want. You can also put a piece of old carpet or some such on the top to retain the heat. Kitchen roll and toilet roll inners are good for the ‘brown’ part. Put lawn clippings in, but only in thinnish layers. The compost has to breathe. You will not believe the magical stuff you get out in the end! Love this post. Happy composting! x

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    1. Fantastic tips – thank you 🙂 it really is magical isn’t it? 😀

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  4. Gina.loves.Bruce Avatar

    I love a good compost story 😉

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  5. rrrmelon Avatar
    rrrmelon

    Aha! Very magical! I will have to work on this! 🙂

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    1. Ha ha ha 😀 Brilliant gif! 😀

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