New compo bins

What a glorious weekend. Saturday was greyish but Sunday was cold but there real heat in the sun. I dropped Miss L off to work and did my errands nearby. Harlow Bros for timber pegs, Machine Mart for marker paint and Halfords for panel screws and fuses. Ten past nine and I was finished shopping. Then to spin over to Newall to see the potato men. As hoped the seed potatoes had arrived and my order was waiting for me. I got some Shallots and Onion sets. I met a couple of blokes I know and had a chat whilst I waited my turn. As usual I did not have enough cash on me for all the things I wanted but I got the main things. Every time a get he seed potatoes I think I have bought too many. This year I might be right. I made my way home for a brew and put the seed potatoes in trays to chit. At home used the panel screws to make a better job of fitting the fuse box on Degsy. I fitted the missing fuse and filled up the spare fuse holders. I topped up the brew gear and set off for the lottie. Just at the bottom of the road a neighbour is having some work down. There was a smashing pallet on top of the business. Just as went by Bill walked out of his house. I stopped as quick as Degsy would allow, had a quick chat with Bill and the pallet was mine. I squeezed it into Degsy and trundled off to the lottie pleased with my fossicking.

I took up where I left off last week digging the pea trenches. A couple of trenches later the old muck bin was empty. I carried on with the trenches but using the muck from the big muck bin. The muck from the old bin was deep brown, like chocolate cake. The muck from the new bin was not as well rotted and was a little green. By the time the four trenches were finished twenty wheelbarrows of muck had been used up.

The new pallet was begging to be used. I removed the end panel of the end muck bin which was not hard as it was more or less rotted through. The timber of the pallet is very resinous so should last a good while. I trimmed the pallet up, set a couple of bricks into the ground and set the pallet on it. I screwed the new pallet to the back pallet remaking the box for the muck bin. Steve found me a steel post which I banged into the ground and with a few tie wraps made it all secure. I had some thin pieces of wood that were too good to burn. I sawed them to length and nailed them between the pallet staves on the inner face. I made a slot on the front face of the pallet to receive the planks that make up the removable front face of the bin. That was it all done the compo bin area looks neat and tidy.
I went up the bed 3 and raked up the sweet corn stalks that had been lying out since the cobs were harvested. They had started to rot down but would make a good base for the new compost bin. I raked up all the gherkin, squash and pumpkin vines which had also been lying out since harvest and stuffed that all in the new bin too. I got the fork and skimmed off the top six inches off the old compo bin and dropped it in the new bin next door. A friend of H had been saving up the bedding from the Rabbit hutch. I had collected a couple bags earlier in the day. That went in the bin too.

Besides having a brew or two and watching the birds that was the day done.