I have had a most wonderful mothers day with much of it having been spent in the garden - after the obligatory (and much enjoyed!) breakfast in bed and lay-in with the newspaper.
First I headed over to Bunnings who had mightily pissed me off yesterday resulting in me missing their free composting workshop. Seems I didn't miss much though as mum had attended at her local store and said it wasn't worth crying over. (It's been International Compost Awareness week this week in case you didn't know)
Anyway, back to today!
Sick Compost Fix-Up
At Bunnings I bought compost activator for my very sick looking compost - found out my balance is all wrong, needs to be 4:1 nitrogen (ie green stuff) to carbon (ie brown stuff). I'll try get to a fruit and vege shop this week and see if I can grab some thrown out lettuce and cabbage leaves from them this week to help with the ratio.
Apparently fresh lawn clippings are nitrogen, but dried out lawn clippings are carbon - and lawn clippings is mostly what goes into my bin. So I have to get better at putting them in when they are green and fresh rather than from my lawn-clipping pile where they're all dry and brown.
Together with the activator, more water, and some scraps from the vege shop I'm hoping my compost will look a whole lot better soon!
hmm started writing this yesterday and it's still sitting on my screen - I'll post it now and see if I have time to finish it later.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
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