Reuse & recycle

Making compost is going to be a huge part of what we do to provide the material we need for our raised beds and growing vegetables via conventional methods.

This time of year cutting back and removing plants that have grown all they can is a common activity. Trimming back the Swiss chard produces a lot of leaf and this needs a home.

Melv has spent the last couple of days making a new compost heap, complete with drop boards, all from recycled materials, and already it has been put to good use.

All our salad leaves...

and watercress are grown in trays and are sold as living plants which are harvested by the customer as needed.

Once harvested by the customers, the trays are returned as cropped trays, with the compost left in.

 

These used trays we then add to the compost heat, wash the trays and fill again...

 

 

 

 

 

This means that our compost goes full cycle, as we reuse all the growing media we use.