John Cossham's Composting Demonstration Gard
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![](/photos/img_garden_80_nq4hn0_lTC4Rz.jpg "John Cossham\")
80m x 7m (240 feet x 21 feet) untidy garden with many mature trees including fruit trees, some raised beds with veg, and many many different compost systems. 'Dalek' bins, pallet bins, greencone, tumblers, wormeries, compost toilet.
Visitors welcome.
I'm ejoying eating Chinese Yam (Cinnamon Vine or Dioscorea batatas/ D.oppositifolia) which grow well in my conservatory and produce big tubers. Yummy!
It's been a good year for pumpkins, squash and courgette. The peabeans are still going and I've a few tomatoes left. My Chicken of the Woods mushroom fruited twice!
I've had two underground wasps nests, one I killed with the glass bowl method, the other I'm ignoring.
As usual, my compost is HOT!!!
Currently growing lots of food plants
Thank you John for prompt reply!. I will certainly look on line. Rgds, Ben
Hello John, I am interested in your composter. Did you make it yourself? Is it a sealed unit? Rgds, Ben from Ireland
So, is this a typical English garden? Organic/chaotic/eclectic? Sounds kind of "hippie" to me. Love to see more photos. What's your day job? Do you own the land? We're trying "guerrilla gardening" in our area, reclaiming abandoned vacant lots, clearing the poison ivy, picking up litter and dumped items from years before. But we don't have any liability insurance, in case volunteers/visitors are injured. Comments?
Thats great! I hope everything is progressing nicely with the potatoes and the many composts as well. Did you have any of your fruittrees flowering and starting to grow fruit as well?
