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Homemade: Soup Mix + Hearty Vegetable Soup⁠ 🍲

Autumn leaves and compost 🍂🍁 In the earlie

Autumn leaves and compost 🍂🍁

In the earlier years when I first started to nurture a garden I had a compost ‘bin’, one of those black plastic ones that was fed with mostly kitchen waste and garden weeds (minus the noxious ones). It made okay compost but it was heavy, wet and a bit stinky.

A few years in I did some research and discovered that a key ingredient was missing from my compost - carbon. And so began my layered compost approach of alternating layers of nitrogen and carbon. Nitrogen is easy, this is fresh and green - raw kitchen waste, weeds, some lawn clippings. While carbon - dry and brown - can take some sourcing. We use a combination of untreated sawdust from the chicken coop (bonus with the manure), ripped up brown paper and cardboard, and mostly dry autumn leaves.

Gathered in large garden bags through autumn the leaves sit beside the compost ready to add a thick layer of carbon every week of so. We 'harvest' the compost twice a year in autumn and spring, with rotating compost bins built out of recycled pallets. While one is resting the other is active. The result is rich, dark, sweet smelling compost that gets sprinkled around the garden beds and fruit trees twice a year.

Swipe through to see our current compost bin + a short video filmed 4 years ago for @nzhouseandgarden by @braden_fastier, where I describe my 3 compost bucket system (when we renovated out kitchen we added purpose build draws for the bins). I had completely forgotten about this video, then today out of the blue my daughter showed me the video again. I love a bit of perfectly timed serendipity. Happy composting 🙌🌿🍂

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