It is 147 steps from the kitchen garden to the compost bins.  Try doing that with a wheelbarrow laden with composting materials.  I have and after a year of uphill staggering I’ve had enough.  Pushing the barrow, often losing half of the contents as I travel up 147 steps up hill has driven me to radical action.  We’ve created another compost corner a mere 10 steps from the kitchen garden gate.

But this is no compost box like we’ve made before.  This is precision engineering with corners fitted properly square with carefully excavated footings to account for the uneven ground.  My father-in-law has been dedicated to the cause and put my ramshackled efforts to shame. I was very excited to throw the first compost material in the new box and look forward to the much shorter journeys I shall make to fill it up.

This brings our total of composting boxes to 5.  Just as well as we have so many I’ve been researching a recipe for gorse compost that may be the new answer to our gorse management project.  Having said that we’ve so much gorse I fear a few more boxes might be needed if we’re really able to cope with the volumes or I may just go for broke and go for something like this.  It was listening to a podcast about Atamia Eco village that I heard for the first time that you could actually compost gorse.  Now, why didn’t I think of that before?