Homemade Compost

Twenty months or so after we began to fill our compost bin with fruit and veg peelings (and an awful lot of coffee filter papers), we used our own compost for the first time.

Yes, I know it isn’t very well turned. Sorting out some of the larger pieces of debris and returning them to the bin left us with this:

Last year’s onion and root bed is becoming this year’s courgette and squash bed (with the rainbow chard left in situ). It needed some weeding, which took most of the afternoon.

Then we dug in our wheelbarrow load of compost and covered it to warm up, ready for the first courgette plants in seven or eight weeks time.