Mud or compost?

Whether u call it "mud" or "compost" we all spend lots of money buying it. 

Before we started our company two years ago we used to spend a fortune buying mud - as I call it. Now we make our own. It's really a lot easier than you think and u don't need loads of space either. 

We started with one compost bins - available on our website and now have two bins to ensure we have mud available all the time.

We have a jar in our kitchen which used to be for biscuits but as we are dieting we put it to better use as a kitchen caddy. We fill it with peelings, uncooked egg shells, vegetable bits and a million teabags.

We also add grass cuttings and shredded paper from our office to the compost bins. It starts to look a bit yuck but that means its working and it does get extremely hot sometimes. Which is a good thing. 

Once ready, we sift out the big bits that haven't quite composted yet and we use the rest as our compost.

All our hanging baskets and pots are filled with our own compost and we have also grown the hanging basket and pot plants from seed this year too! 

Our youngest daughter loves to help sieve the compost and do the planting which is great as she loves eating our home grown carrotts to help her see in the dark!

 

Sifting the remains of the compost bin