Tag: composting
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Typhoon Malcolm
Empty Empty… It looks like a typhoon has been through our yard. Branches and broken growth are everywhere. Even Athena doesn’t know where to poo! It’s actually not that bad. Yes the place is in a mess. I started with a light pre-Winter tidy up, then discovered that the Madder had spread absolutely everywhere under…
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Comfrey composter update.
The leftovers.Well, it’s been about a month, so I wanted to check out what was happening inside of the Comfrey Compost Tea Maker that I posted about in January. The tea maker was made from 90mm PVC pipe, 1 metre long. I packed it tightly with Comfrey leaves and, over the month, got just over 200ml of…
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A jar of Comfrey tea
A little while ago, I posted a Low Technology DIY showing how to make a Comfrey Compost Tea Maker. This black, odourless liquid is the result of a week of that gadget working. It’s not a lot, but is highly concentrated goodness. I even tasted it and it has, what they call in herbalsim,…
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Scared to go out
Since we covered their favourite digging and scratching grounds with a couple of inches of compost, the girls haven’t moved further from the door to their run than in the pic above. They have so much more to play with now but just aren’t interested.
