Apart from grass cuttings and veggie peelings I also put (among some other things..) tea bags and eggshells, hoover dust, and shredded paper (just try and steal my identity from in the composter - Huh
) into my garden compost.
However there comes a time when there must be some compost in there to get out - and I need something to earth up my potatoes (as I planted them a little too close together and its hard to get earth from between the rows..
) so I tackled the garden compost.
I did this last year - so I remembered to put an old plastic sheet in front of it. Its one of those 'cone' composters. It does have a small hatch in the bottom, but that is impossible to remove compost from, so we pulled off the cone and put it in a new position. Then I tried to get the uncomposted stuff off the top and put it back in, and then get the good stuff from the bottom and put it on my plastic sheet to have a close look and make sure its not full of undecomposed food, then bag it up and take it away.
It sounds easy doesn't it - but I seem to then get surrounded by compost - some OK and some not, all really heavy and difficult to work, so I sorted it out and got the good stuff on the plastic sheet to dry off a bit.
All in all I was up to my elbows in muck but when I mixed it with some potting compost it was Fantastic!
I put some over the top of my garden pots - I'm sure it will be nutritious and help keep the water in and the rest is now at the allotment, ready to be mixed and put onto my spuds.
My husband came over while I was there digging up a bed on Saturday and asked me why everyone elses potatoes were better than mine. 
- probably because they spend all day there on a Sunday and I get 3 hours over the weekend!
This is the month I need to put in extra hours so I can keep up with the game. I have so much in my shed ready to plant I can't wait to get them out there. I don't want to put too much out before the end of the month in case it doesn't survive and if it is too wet the slugs get it - they've demolished 1 runner bean and have started on number 2 (despite my beer trap, horse hair and sawdust around it and some slug pellets hiding under the edge of the path!
My eldest is going to cubs tonight, so I can have an hour and a half while he's there to help those spuds!
Have a good week.
