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Welcome to The Compost Bin, which contains my musings on my life. I live in Herefordshire with my husband and 11 year old daughter. We have 4 acres of land which contains a woodland, small orchard, garden and veg plot. We grow our own organic fruit and veg and make lots of cider, wine, jam and chutney. We share our lives with 16 Chickens, 3 Cats, 4 Guinea Pig and assorted wildlife!

I am a freelance Forest School Leader and Environmental Educator so work with both adults and children on all sorts of things. I also volunteer as a Master Composter and Master Gardener, helping people make compost and grow veg.

So, I might talk about; what we have been doing on our patch of land and in our wood, my work, the chickens and their funny ways, how to grow veg, the fun things our cats get up to, self sufficiency and what it actually means, more general environmental issues, composting, making various crafty stuff, happy and sad times here, living a slower, more hand made, frugal lifestyle, making and mending and re-using and re-cycling stuff, living more lightly on the Earth and my views on life in general.

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Thursday, 1 April 2010

Today I mostly...................

.....sneezed!

I have a bad cold, runny nose, eyes, sneezing lots - the works..so I  didn't go to see a fellow freecycler to collect some mypex weed sheet from her... I didbn't think she would want my cold in return.!

Instead I had a bit of a rest, read a load of teaching related magazines and books by the woodburner, I tidied up the sitting room, the kitchen, washed out and dried off for storage 20 apple juice bottles for use in the the autumn again, ggenerally had a bit of a sort out of all the "stuff" that a kitchen bench can accumulate...

I sorted out all the seeds so I have the next lot ready for successional sowing and I also did the same for the school garden seeds, so when we get back after Easter break the children and I can get planting!

I put a load of magazines out to either be passed on to friends or recycled.

 I did some ironing.

I transplanted 80 tomato plants into individual pots and put them in the cold frame inside the polytunnel..These will be sold to make money for either me or the school garden fund at an event on May Day BH weekend...

6 of each variety are inside the warmer porch area, as that is a very effective greenhouse and those are for my use....and will be bigger, earlier plants when I come to plant them out in the PT

I will be doing peppers tomorrow and then I can get the cucumbers and melons moved in ...and the courgettes planted up ( the outside ones) the iside courgettes are already growing well.

As are beans, peas, and all sorts but they are stacked up inside the PT, waiting for it to dry up enough for me to plant them outside.....which looks unlikely!

All in all a productive day, which is good, as to be honest I didn't think I would manage to do very much today!

2 comments:

willow said...

You had such a full day, it makes me feel very lazy. I will plant some seeds at home today as it is too cold and rainy to want to go to the allotment. Hope you feel better soon and have a good Easter weekend.

bringmesunshine said...

Gazutai!!