🍁🍃🍂Making Compost 🍂🍃🍁

                 Today you find me sweeping leaves . Replenishing the good Earth  .

So Ricardo has been bombing around on his ride on lawn mower and has had orders to please put the grass clippings onto the old Runner-bean bed .

My job -  sweeping up leaves .

Brown and green -  is what makes the most perfect compost .

                                      The leaves smell so good !

I prefer to just spread this straight onto my vegetable beds and let the worms do the digging over Autumn and Winter .

I am no longer adding manure from horses/cows - due to the risk of Aminopyralid poisoning - from a weed killer- which apparently some farmers have been spraying on to their fields -  horses / cows eat the grass and hay and the manure that they then produce , if put on our vegetable beds , causes all plants to become twisted and deformed .  AND   it stays in the ground for years .  

The French Bean bed is next . I have been putting fruit and vegetable peelings , spent compost ,a little wood chippings , grass clippings , sea weed and cardboard ....which needs to be flattened and something put on top to stop it blowing away . It very quickly breaks down when the rain comes .

I quickly sorted that cardboard out , tearing it into shreds and more grass clippings put on top . It's going to rain again later on , so it will soon break down . Looking a bit smarter now I've done that !

Hopefully tomorrow , I will gather more leaves to go on top .

🌧️The worms , the toadstools , the wind and the rain , will get to work on it all 🍄🪱⛈️

                                            🧡Loving Autumn ! 🧡