It takes a nation of farmers to hold its back.

[hirez]

Apparently we're mostly descended from farmers. (Picture in the Guardian features what seems to be a rowcrop Nuffield. Oo-aar, etc

Comments

[miss_soap]

OK, a question from a city person - we have a compost bin in the garden, which I've been tipping weeds and vegetable leftovers etc. into, but it all just seems to dry out, rather than turn magically into compost. Is there a magic method to this?

[hirez]

I'll go and find the Bristol City Council Compost Club (No, really) webshite in a minute, but you're allowed to tip a bucket of water in the thing if it's too dry.

Aha!

I'm given to understand that a bucket of piss is jolly good, too. (I've not tried widdling in ours because it's at the end of the garden and handy for a blackthorn bush. Which I would fall into.

[valkyriekaren]

...and they'd never believe you at A&E that it was a 'gardening accident'.

[jarkman]

You should fit it with a urinal, Duchamp-style.

[cybermule]

You can grow spuds fine in big bags. I did it last year.

[hirez]

Excellent! It'll give me something to do with the output of the composter.

[cybermule]

Yup. Spuds will break it down even further. I was using 40 litre multipurpose compost bags last year, filling them about half way, then rolling them up and topping them up as the spuds needed earthing up.

[quercus]

Our local "garden waste collection" bags are green cubes, like a 1/2 scale model of a builder's one-tonner, in green flat woven polypropylene canvas.

Best of all they're a (subsidised?) quid, from local shops. Turn them inside out and they don't even say "Monmouth" any more.

[mimmimmim]

U haz bukkit? potatoes grow quite well in those.

Are you any good at fixing Lomo fisheye cameras (I know you have one and are a bit techie) or do you know anyone who is? Pete's has a dodgy flash and I'm trying to find someone to fix it.

[hirez]

I do indeed haz.

However, I'm thinking in larger quantities + other veg.

My Lomo-fixing extends to walloping it with the heel of my hand and shouting 'Work, you bastard!'

[quercus]

I'm glad that "dawn of agriculture" seemingly means picnicing by tractor.

[sallypointzero]

...more people tending soil etc ....mutter.... i will have a grande mal in the style of a pictish crofter's hen-woman if i don't get an otter and a remote cottage -or equivalent -like that man with the funny eyes...