Comfrey & broad bean compost
Summer is a wonderful thing. Summer holidays are even more so. Today I chopped all the broad bean plants into chunks about five centimetres long and dropped them into our rotating compost bin. Then I harvested an armful of comfrey chopped the stems below the leaf off (anything close to the root is just too prone to surviving and setting up a new colony of hard to eradicate plant) and then whizzed up the leaves in my mini kitchen whiz. Usually I use it to make hummous, but comfrey pulp is just as worthy. Then I put it all in a large bowl, covered it with warm water and left it in the sun for a while. Then I closed all the holes on the compost bin, opened the lid and poured the mixture in, closed it and rotated it round and round a few times. Comfrey is a compost activator, and the broad bean plants with their large leaves and woody stems (plus some old beans I had no inclination to cook) will contain a good mix of nitrogen and carbon. I weeded ...