First Mission Accomplished!!

As it is meant to be 28 degrees today I have decided to be out in the garden only the first half of today as it gets really sweltering out there in the middle of the day in that heat and burned to a crisp!! So without much delay after a good breakfast of toast and honey washed down with a glass of orange juice I headed out to my compost bin with a spade to dig out some compost for my borders before any plants can go in. As they are young seedlings they need all the nutrition they can get.

Oh, before I forget, can I point out the lovely daisies in the picture on the left here - my father in law brought them for me yesterday evening - which he found growing wild in his garden. Aren't they pretty ? I think they are - just as well because they smell horrid ! I have seen a few bees on it but I don't think they were attracted to their smell but rather their colour.



After about an hour later, having dug out enough compost - known as "black gold" in the gardening world - I found my trowel which I thought I must have binned, in the compost bin amongst my compost material!! It must have been in there for at least a year !! I have missed it though ! Mind you I have found my spoons and forks in there before so no surprises there I think being the absent minded self as I normally am.

Vegetable peels, young cuttings from the garden and grassing cuttings are all thrown into these bins and left in there for about a year to rot down. It will smell a bit in there to start with when it is slowly rot down and that was why we invested in some proper compost bins with lids to keep the flies out and the smell in !! Slowly with the earth worms eating through all those peels and stuff what we get in the end is a non smelling crumbly, black and very rich compost for the garden (picture on the right) - all straight out of my garden with no extra costs - well, apart from buying those bins in the first place but those would outlast me I would think !

Now that I have laboriously forked in the compost (on top of the soil in the picture below) and dugged it over in the borde,r the sweet peas and my marigold seedlings were in its final place. Hopefully in a few weeks time they will reward me with an abundance of frangrant flowers!!