Ever since our hot composting session in early October we’ve been keen to give it a try ourselves. We’ve needed to get a few elements together:
- Pallets: to make bays for the compost to compost in. We got 1 double lenght one and 2 normal sized ones that were outside K & D Bricks and Pavers in Lenah Valley a few weeks ago. They’ve been in the van ever since. We’ll pick up the last pallet we need to have 2 bays from our friend Naomi next time we’re at her place.
- A bale of straw or hay: Christina dropped one off at our place Sunday morning. (Embarassingly it was from a place close to our house!)
- Green weedy stuff: we had tonnes after all the weeding on Saturday!
So with the planets – if composting elements can be called planets (which I doubt) – all aligned, we were ready to get going. I got some corner angle thingso at the hardware store. Scott did the holding of pallets while I screwed them together. Then we got going on making the compost heap, layering hay, horse manure, green weeds, and some dynamic lifter. And lots of watering in between layers. I was wearing a lot of manure by the end of it. Probably one of the reasons Lottie loves me so much.
It’s quite hard to see – and hard to photograph the beautiful layered end because it faces the apricot tree. But hopefully in a few weeks we’ll find out it’s a great one! (Hopefully!)
