Vege garden - step 1

Well we've taken the first step to creating our vege garden. On the weekend Paul set up our new compost bin (we won't mention that it sat in its box for 3 weeks first will we now). We decided to put it down the back of the section as eventually we're going to dig all the ferns etc up anyway so why not start now (one day we may put a workshop in down there). Plus down the back it's as far away as possible from our house and our neighbours houses so we shouldn't stink anyone out :-) So here are a few pics I took of Paul setting it up.

Evidence # 1 - some men do read instructions

The freshly cleared spot for the compost bin. All we have to do now is put all our vege scraps in and hey presto we have compost. Yeah right! I think looking after it may end up being Paul's job :-)

Ferns no more. I'm not sure how many bugs Paul found in clearing the space and I don't want to know. Note the neighbours fence on the back left has metal posts instead of wooden ones like the neighbours behind us. That's to stop the termites eating out your fence - nice aye ;-)

Paul about to put in our first lot of scraps. Fortunately we have a little bin with a lid as this stuff had been in it for about 3 weeks. I figured the best way force ourselves to put the compost bin up was to start filling up the scraps bucket :-) It worked :-)

Virgin bin no more :-) Don't ask me what the concrete thing is behind Paul. I'm wondering if it was used in the past for incinerating rubbish. You can tell that there used to be some oldies living here (support rail in bath) so maybe they used to burn their rubbish. But the concrete bricks just sit on each other so it's pretty dodge!