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Ac Baker

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The new composting bay is commissioned: before and after. The black plastic is recovered, so keeps out excessive rain plus helps to heat up the contents for hot composting.

We should be able to fill this bay within two months at the current rate!

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Double-width pallet composting bay, held together by corner brackets & screws.

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Composting bay covered in recovered black plastic

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We got the word out a little further today, and it was fun too.

We had a little article in a couple of local magazines recently. This intrigued a couple of neighbours, who got together about half-a-dozen people who wanted a visit.

So I did the tour today, with some context about how we're 'cloding the loop' for local veg & fruit growing & sharing, plus some history, plant chat, Q&A etc. Lots of fun, and really good initial feedback too.

Better still, our visitors went & enthused to their friends. So I may be doing another run of the tour in a couple of weeks time.

Best of all, a couple of the visitors are interested in finding out about getting actively involved. Fingers crossed!

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Good news AC.

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We've had another good week. Decent rain, mostly overnights, with warm drier days. Most of the potatoes are doing well (first & second earlies, and main crop). The various tomatoes are coming along: I think we have about six varieties all donated plants. But the latter need more feeding I think, so I've tried mulching with freshly cut nettles.

The Carlin peas & broad beans are doing well too, apart from the introduced grey squirrels eating the beans!

But! We have a severe heatwave starting tomorrow by our standards, with most of the days next week in the low to mid 30s C. Not good for cool climate crops such as potatoes. Sigh.

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Carlin peas in flower, light pink & dark burgundy, with broad beans behind, beans ripening in their pods.

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