I have two of these green bins for compost, this is the pile after lifting it off. sometimes I just use it as is, bits and all, they decompose eventually.
but today it was shoogled through this garden sieve to take out the large bits which were put back in the bin
second barrow full
marvellous stuff. one thing the camera hasn't caught, even in close up, is the movement of all the beasties, ants, beetles, earwigs, centipedes, millipedes, worms, unidentified 'things' and creepy crawlies. it truly was 'alive' and some of those have come back into the house with me and are now running about the bath, having failed to drown!!
underneath the protective fleece, Tansy!
and this is marvellous stuff to find, hedgehog poo!
I have two of these green bins for compost, this is the pile after lifting it off. sometimes I just use it as is, bits and all, they decompose eventually.
but today it was shoogled through this garden sieve to take out the large bits which were put back in the bin
second barrow full
marvellous stuff. one thing the camera hasn't caught, even in close up, is the movement of all the beasties, ants, beetles, earwigs, centipedes, millipedes, worms, unidentified 'things' and creepy crawlies. it truly was 'alive' and some of those have come back into the house with me and are now running about the bath, having failed to drown!!
underneath the protective fleece, Tansy!
and this is marvellous stuff to find, hedgehog poo!
13 comments:
So hedgehodge poo really exists?! It's a funny thought. At first, my inner voice said that "She's pulling my leg, 'cause hedgehodges are mythical creatures aren't they?"!
I am not a big fan of sifting but I sure have lots of it to do in our garden.
Claire, also in my garden I find this hedgehogpoos! But it is no problem.
Compost is the best thing I have in my garden, I have four bins (correct word?)
Sigrun
Hi Claire!
Here's an interesting link about the invasion of Greenlanders into Scotland back in the olde days which you might enjoy...
Enjoy!
Oops... forgot to give you the link! Here it is - http://www.wazop.net/nicolas/index.shtml?a=931
Wildside, surely you are pulling my leg?
http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/hog/
they eat slugs!!
Peggy, I just though it would make the compost better, I dont usually bother.
Sigrun, I am glad you have hedgehogs, they are good creatures, except for the fleas. home made compost is great stuff, the more the better!
Michael, thankyou for the link, there is a museum somewhere has a kayak from which a dying greenlander was pulled out somewhere in the north of Scotland, so I believe they can get here.
Ummm...hedgehog poo. Certainly something you won't find around here! :)
The kitty picture is PRECIOUS.
The poo?? I thought at first it was a lumpy slug. Turns out they eat those?? So that make sense:)
Deb, no hedgehog poo means non hedge hogs, poor you! do you not have them there at all, are they a european thing?
Lowa, Daisy thinks she is precious too! and the poo does indeed look like digested slugs, marvellous.
I don't think the states have hedgehogs but we make up for it with porcupines.
I have never seen hedgehog poo before.
Thank you.
Granny, you are welcome!! I am sorry you don't have hedgehogs because they are really cute, except for the fleas, they are a welcome garden helper and getting to be rarer here, althought you can always see a dozen or so dead on the roads. . .
I just love the scenery along your old rail line, you could do an entire photo-essay on that.
That hedgehog dung looks pretty disgusting but I'd tolerate all kinds of inconveniences to have native critters about.
Is that a common treasure you find in your yard? Too bad they are in decline, I'd like to see one in the wild someday.
So many once common animals are declining rapidly, like Prairie Dogs in America.
;~)
Jim, I occasionally see the evidence but have not actually seen a hedgehog for a couple of years, and that is because I rescued it from some children who were discussing weather to let it go or stone it to death. . . .
when I was a child it seems they were about a lot but I lived more in the countryside and had a dog to walk at bedtime so that may have been why.
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