​Finishing emptying the compost bin

Sunday 28th October
Today I managed to finish digging out the left hand compost bin resulting in the centre bin full of lovely half decomposed compost which will be ready for speeding in the spring. The old empty compost bin will need completely renovating as it had rotted away at the bottom.

​That done I turned my attention to the asparagus bed. The end near the chance was riddled with bindweed so I thoroughly dug over along the fence and the end of the bed producing a batch of roots destined for the water bucket, the incinerator or the council tip. I also spread a layer of my compost over the red to protect and feed the plants, though I have some new plants on order to replace the failed plants.

​I then dug out the rest of my fennel as it had gone to seed - apart from a couple that may be worth eating.
Then, having handed in my potato and onion set order for next spring at the Trading Hut, I went home.