The compost heap was looking great yesterday with handfuls of brandling worms jumping about when we looked in (most falling off the bin’s lid we reckon as I don’t think our worms have learned how to fly just yet!) It was a sight for sore eyes seeing them and also feeling the heat, for the first few weeks after we started it was stone cold and wormless.

After a good old fork over this is what the heap looked like (above), a nice old mixture! It’s good to mix alll the micro organisms, bacteria and insects up and give them a change of scenery and the air you create helps too!

Those plastic dalek bins are a bit of a pain compared to those nice old square wooden ones when it comes to turning with a garden fork as the knuckles do tend to get caught on the lip at the top of a dalek. That’s something we’ve got to put up with at the moment until we rethink the bin.

Also the wormery which originally took a while to get going looked healthy yesterday (above) when we opened it up (AKA took the bin bag with the ventilation holes in it off the top). We tend to forget about putting stuff into it sometimes which is a crime but suprisingly it’s looking great. You can see the odd bit of just added teabag and a few bits of potato peel, that’s called guilt that is! #compostinginlockdown