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Posts tagged Green Johanna
Winter is coming
26 months ago
OK, so actually it is pretty much here. I’ve been working on a big project lately which I will write about once it is done, for today here is just a little update.
Today Bella and I visited the Environment Centre in High Wycombe in its new home a short walk from our home. We used to go all the time [...]
Compost Non-update
08 months ago
by Ed
in Hot-composting
Why have I titled this a non-update? Well, basically, nothing much has changed now for a while. The compost at the bottom of the Green Johanna looks nothing like the food it came from, lots mostly like soil but is still soft, wet and smelly and full of rat-tailed maggots (Hoverfly larvae, [...]
Veggies Update
28 months ago
The last post I did about our veggie patch was back in April, since then we have had a full growing season and harvested our magnificent bounty…… well erm you’ll see.
This post will be of no interest to a seasoned gardener I’m afraid, but it shows how well plants have grown on compost from my Green [...]
Planting time!
31 year ago
Last weekend (well, the one before last) we put a planter and some meadow seed down in our eyesore of a garden, and this weekend Bella and I added some more plants!
Below are some photos of what we got up to. As well as planing potato’s we also planted some peas (which will grow up the deck [...]
Carbon and Composlime
21 year ago
by Ed
in Hot-composting
Me? Struggling for post titles? It’s like you are saying there isn’t anything all that interesting about compost….
Last weekend I mentioned that the compost wasn’t ready, but that we had to go ahead and use some anyway. Well a week later I have actually got around to adding in some carbon. We do [...]
More compost and planter
41 year ago
Not the most exciting post but the best I can think up, as you can tell from the lack of posts over the last month I am very busy with work [current project]! This weekend we set aside some time to work on our garden. It has been in a sorry state for 2 or 3 years now (I can’t remember which), with [...]
Hot Compost – We have finally used some!
21 year ago
by Ed
in Hot-composting
Well, it has been over a year, but we have at last used some of the compost we have been making. Sadly we used it to part fill the pot for a small tree we have placed over Vader (our cats) grave; he was hit by a car.
Vader isn’t in the pot, he’s buried in the garden but we wanted something to sit [...]
Hot compost – one year on
11 year ago
Well it’s been about one year since we started hot composting with our Green Johanna, and we have yet to get any compost from it, but then again we have yet to fill it (as of today it is only ¾ full)!
We set out to reduce our waste to landfill, and we have; we now throw out between ¼ and ½ a bag of [...]
Swampost 3; the death of Swampost (December 2011 update)
01 year ago
The woes of the last few months (Swampost posts 1 and 2) seem to be over, the digging out of the pile and addition of plenty of leaves has stopped the bad smell and the pile, whilst still wet, is nowhere near wet enough to have bubbles forming in it (as a few months ago when bubbles were forming on [...]
Swampost 2; something died (November 2011 update)
31 year ago
Continuing the theme of my aptly titled ‘Swampost‘ post I bring you the sequel ‘Swampost 2′ or ‘something crawled in there and died’. As you might be able to guess my smelly compost woes have not gone away, but I still hope it’s a temporary and fixable situation. [...]
