I am lazy gardener....most of the time, I forgot to water my plants. But the weather in Malaysia is forgiving. We get rain quite often and most of my plants do not die on me. And when I had forgotten to shower them, the droopy and browning leaves will be beckoning me for that precious drop of water......
I have started composting due to the constant supply of dry leaves and twigs and kitchen scraps. This black bin was supposedly to hold my rubbish but the constant rummaging by my dogs (not that I did not feed them, it is just that they fell into temptation everytime they passed the bin) put a stop to the plan. There were holes drilled on the bottom of the bin to drain out water. The cover has a slit (thanks to the dogs, it provides oxygen needed to break down the scraps to compost). I churned the scraps every now and then with a long pole to aerate them.
What are my scraps made of? Coffee grinds (after my afternoon tea), chinese tea leaves (discarded after 3 rounds of infusion), fallen leaves and vegetables odds and ends (after my preparing of lunch/dinner). Not that fertilisers are expensive, it is just that nothing beats the joy of what you can create from waste and save for a rainy day.......Now, isn't that killing two birds with a stone?
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