Footprint 20: The compost heap

The long-awaited compost heap is now in place in the corridor between my house and that of my neighbour.

The corridor, with the compost heap at the end on the left

The compost heap is a fairly simple construction.  There is a hole about six inches deep which is then surrounded by chicken wire held up with fencing posts.  This is to help stop unwanted intruders, like stray cats, large birds and rats.  What is fascinating is that I had saved up stuff for the heap for several weeks - a bag of hay, compost in a bucket, kelp in a bucket, grass cuttings, and I had all the trimmings from the wild dagga and indigenous violet.  It was barely enough to fill the hole.

Compost in the compost heap

The story of collecting more will be posted in the later post.