Re: Compost
> Gunnar Dath wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> thank you for all the nice and interesting answers that I got about
> composting in Greece!
>
> I was not sure whether to stop or not, but now after all the
> information that I got and my own discoveries lately I shall certainly
> continue.
Whatever the locals may say I am sure the soil would be greatly improved
by giving it back some organic matter. Many pics I have seen of Greece
show the most awful, bone white, eroded landscape, which seems to result
from a mixture of goat grazing damage and the failure to return ANYTHING
to the soil (well, apart from the goat dung).
> A closed compost doesn't need that much extra water since very little
> evaporates through the openings. The top layer was very good, but the
> rest soggy and I shall have to remove the surplus water somehow and
> also add some soil or peat to suck up the rest. The cockroaches are
> gone now for some reason,
I wonder if they had come for the moisture.
> Gardening here is so exciting and different from Sweden.
That I can well imagine. It is hard to imagine countries more different
than Greece and Sweden. You must feel a true pioneer.
best wishes
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
