The weather has been fairly poor today thanks to a storm that I’ve already forgotten the name of, but I managed to get outside for a couple of hours this afternoon and started spreading out the remainder of our own compost from last year over more of the beds. I’m honestly not sure where some of my family get their ideas about what is compostable though, having raked it out. I found four lengths of 4mm round steel bar, about 50cm long, loads of lumps of expanded polystyrene (possibly used as crocks in pots?), a bed sheet, plant labels, foil packets for plant seeds, some still containing seeds and at least one not even opened, polypropylene rope, stones, lumps of mortar and large pieces of wood 🙁 Not quite as exciting as the small trowel and pair of secateurs I found when I emptied the previous bin.
I ran out of light before I’d quite finished, but I do now have one bed covered in compost for the full fourteen metre length of the plot, and half of another almost covered. To complete that I need to lift some spring onions that are in the way and aren’t ready yet and move them elsewhere. I may spread a little more of the bought in “green waste” compost over the top, but I’ll worry about that later, when I have more beds covered.