How to make and maintain a compost heap (part II)

I divided my compost heap into two at the weekend by piling all that had not rotted sufficiently to use yet,into a taller,narrower pile and kept the other half free to start a new pile while the bigger stack (fingers crossed) really does become useful compost over the next couple of months.

It seemed to me that the few loads of grass clippings that Bealers had inadvertently added to the heap had slowed things as they were extremely dry and looked like ash rather than lovely crumbly moist soily stuff. I remembered that I’d read somewhere that the occasional addition of human urine is meant to speed up the compost process so I mentioned this to the members of the household with the appropriate equipment. Bealers is not so keen to be seen to be urinating in his own back garden but the 4 year old lad is most happy to oblige with the odd emergency wee-wee. Must dig up that clump of stinging nettles growing next to the heap!

The good news is that there was a tub trug’s worth of usable compost at the bottom of the heap so have dolloped it around the next section of the veg patch to receive plants/seeds.

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