The Latest Compost Bin and other neglected bits of our garden

If a woman doesn't post what you want her to post, then there is only one way of rectifying this: BLOG it yourself. So, here is my attempt of giving you a slightly different insight into our garden whilst the weather is rainy, gloomy and foul - so not much garden activity has been happening in the last couple of days.

Anyway, 5 weeks ago we bought and started our fourth compost bin (see http://marigoldgarden.blogspot.com/2009/03/compost-bin-no-4.html) and this photo (taken on the 4th April) shows that the compost is already full! Only 250 litre, ah well... Proves my point that we needed it, I think. Especially, since all the clearing of the vegetable beds, the cutting of bushes, shrubs and trees - not to talk about the "packaging" from the bought vegetables - produces a lot of yummy material for Mr. Compost; or less personified: worms and other insects feeding themselves on it too.

This shows one of last year's chard plants - we are still eating from them now, and one of the roots of a chard plant, which was dying, dug up. I find it interesting how the individual bits of the roots are so twisty and turny. Anyway, on the one hand I can also highly recommend chard plants as only about 6 of them were enough to give us loads of harvest for the last couple of months. On the other hand, some of them have this great purple-red-greenish colour - which in itself looks pretty, almost wants you not to eat it. However, as most of you out there know, I'm not a vegetarian because I like animals, but because I hate plants! So the fact that a vegetable is a beautiful, attractive-looking vegetable won't stop me from eating it. Sorry!

The front garden hasn't been featured at all in our BLOG - yet. This might be because of the fact that it is rather small, mostly concreted over (I have to add: we are NOT guilty for doing that), and because we have still not finished adding plants and removing horrible ones. Anyway, the photo below shows you the buddliah which we had moved from the back of our house/main garden...