Ever since we started our compost heap, 9 years ago, we've managed to produce lumpy but usable compost - of a reasonable, if slightly wet consistency. This year, our heap is seeping liquid, and because the ground is so wet, it isn't being absorbed - instead we have a nasty smelly, small pool of muck, seething with maggots. It is revolting. I am going to put lots of paper and cardboard down to absorb it and put more paper in the bin so that I can absorb it a bit.
I am really annoyed, but I have been working on and around it all morning, and am covered with revolting guck - off to have a bath shortly. I've been doing other things in the garden too - planting up plug petunias, splitting the iris siberica and weeding. The garden is so lovely - at the moment there is a huge cluster of compassion roses, lowering above the Albertine - they are similar colours, not ideal, but really fantastic.
I do hope I have some time in the autumn to dig places up and thin stuff out - otherwise next year the garden will over flow.
I am really annoyed, but I have been working on and around it all morning, and am covered with revolting guck - off to have a bath shortly. I've been doing other things in the garden too - planting up plug petunias, splitting the iris siberica and weeding. The garden is so lovely - at the moment there is a huge cluster of compassion roses, lowering above the Albertine - they are similar colours, not ideal, but really fantastic.
I do hope I have some time in the autumn to dig places up and thin stuff out - otherwise next year the garden will over flow.
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