[Sue Deacon]

Point taken

[Micks Garden]

In an earlier post I said I would make a video of the next heap, vids can not be attached here and you need good quality to put them on you tube .
A few photos will have to do the job.
I started a heap yesterday, the recipe is 1 part fresh horse manure, 1 part sea weed(chopped up) 4 parts spent reeds . That's one barrow manure, one barrow seaweed to four barrows reeds.
I lay that out in layers on a sheet of polythene, I mix the six barrows together and then pile it on the heap, then six more and six more until done .

This heap is only half done as I did not have enough seaweed.
Its now 4 X 4 ft and when finished it will be four feet high, that's about 42 wheel barrow loads . For now I have to keep it dry as I don't want it to start until I get up to the four feet.
The card board box's are only there to form a temp wall, I will remove them in a few days, as the heap needs air.
I expect this to be ready in six weeks, that's four weeks composting and two weeks maturing.

[Micks Garden]

Image shows two heaps, the one on the left is about two weeks old notice all the materials are now black (half cooked). The near one is less then a week old and as you can see its still brown and a close up will show bits of seaweed not digested .
At two weeks, the sea weed is no longer visible.

[tagwex]

"Blessed are the compost makers for they shall inherit the Earth", not the meek then!?

I would have thought that the compost makers make the earth.

[Micks Garden]

[Sue Deacon]

Blessed are the compost makers - I like it.

[tagwex]

Cheese makers????

[Micks Garden]

[tagwex]

RRTFL??? Must be a different language out wessshhht! !!

[Micks Garden]

[Sue Deacon]

Ahhh, I was wondering .... Like Tagwex I hadn't a clue what you were on about.

Bit like me when someone sneezes and I shout 'Arsenal !' Shades of Morecambe and Wise. Fork 'andles anyone?