New Compost Bays

My husband has been hard at work the past few days creating some compost bays so we can start producing our own compost for enriching the vegie garden beds. We also have grander plans to do this on a larger scale for using on our paddocks, but small steps first…

We plan to use the abundant supply of stable manure (mix of horse manure and pine shavings) we have, as well cow manure (courtesy of Dasiy, Cadbury, Dora and Billy), lawn clippings, mulched/chipped garden clippings, weeds, vegetable plants that have passed their use by date and some chicken manure.

We went for a simple construction using some corrugated iron and a mix of old fence posts that we have lying around and some new timber for the slats at the front.

We also opted to construct it in our chicken pen to let our chookies do some of the hard work of turning it and also so they can enjoy the abundant supply of bugs etc. As you can imagine they have been very appreciative!