Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

djohn2002uk

But when you sat down after all that weeding and tidying up you must have felt good about it all. That's the good thing about gardening, you always think back over the hard days with loads of pleasure.

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

But when you sat down after all that weeding and tidying up you must have felt good about it all. That's the good thing about gardening, you always think back over the hard days with loads of pleasure.

Oh, you're not wrong. I feel absolutely jiggered, but really pleased with the progress. I've done all the hard, nasty stuff now, so all I really have to do is maintain it until I decide what I'm going to do with the unused side. A pond might be on the cards at some point, when I've recovered.

mrbadexample

I've just taken the last load of rubble to the tip - three big bootloads in total. Everything else should now be able to go in the waste bin.

Whilst I was there I picked up a couple of bags of the council compost. It actually looks surprisingly good - nice dark colour, and from what I can see, no nasty bits. At £2 for 40l, that's a pretty decent price too, I think. :money:

djohn2002uk

I bought 3 70ltr bags this morning for £11 = 5.23p/litre
yours was 5p/ltr so was a good buy.
I could have had 4 bags for £13 = 4.64p/litre but not got enough room to store it.

smithyjules

We brought lots of that style compost from our local recycling centre to fill a raised bed in our garden, I've got strawbery's rehomed in there now and garlic planted in the gaps and they are thriving so I'm very pleased with it. It does dry out a bit though but for £1.50 a bag I won't complain!

mrbadexample

I think what impressed me most was the quality:



I guess I was expecting something a bit on the ropy side.

Lotus-eater

mrbadexample wrote: »

I think what impressed me most was the quality:

That's what I keep telling the OH. Forget the quantity, just feel the quality.
:cool:

mrbadexample

First LAYA bean:



Let battle commence!

CandyB101_2

mrbadexample wrote: »

I think what impressed me most was the quality:

I guess I was expecting something a bit on the ropy side.

I haven't seen/had a bag of compost like that for a couple of years, they always seem to be quite 'woody' these days.
I haven't heard of my local council doing anything like that

mrbadexample

CandyB101 wrote: »

I haven't heard of my local council doing anything like that

Where do you live? Look on the council website for the recycling centre (tip) - they might have some on there. I didn't know mine did it until now, but I'll be using it more often I think.