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Tag Archives: composting
ShareWaste
Through Leeds Rotters Composting Champions, I have come across a nationwide scheme to help build soil and grow food. This scheme, ShareWaste, brings together people who have food waste to donate and people who would love to compost it. The … Continue reading
Posted in Good for the environment, Social, soil management
Tagged composting, food waste, Freegle, ShareWaste
20 Comments
Convalescence activities
It’s not often I spend a day reading but yesterday I threw in the towel and learned a lot from the Internet (novels I can only read in paper form). On my metaphorical travels, I came across legal information pertaining … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Permaculture
Tagged climate change, composting, Gardeners’ Question Time, ground elder
16 Comments
Impossible not to dig
When I first learned about the no-dig technique, I wasn’t ready to take it on board. Then I moved up a notch and with my hugel beds in situ, there is little chance of my being able to dig approximately … Continue reading
The bokashi bin
It being my birthday today, it’s been pretty awesome one way or another. Not least, when I got home there were two notifications that I had parcels waiting for me. One was at a neighbour’s, free wild flower seeds for … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Good for the environment, In the kitchen
Tagged birthdays, bokashi bin, composting, fertiliser
25 Comments
Got my view back!
Well, the compost bin is almost full now! Earlier on today, I noticed that some of the flowers on the florence fennel had shrivelled and died. It therefore seemed unlikely that there would be any of the hoped-for seeds forthcoming. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Good for the environment
Tagged brassicas, composting, florence fennel, lettuce, phacelia
6 Comments
An hour in the hail
Turning the compost heap is not my favourite job. Is it yours? So, there was a lot of procrastinating this evening. The upshot was that just after I had stepped out I heard a clap of thunder. Then the hail … Continue reading
