Month: June 2019

Garden Shredder

Awesome Garden Shredder

Gardening time and the hedges need a cut, we also have some very large trees that need a serious hair cut. One of our problems is that we have to take the waste to the public recycling center which is 6 miles away. If we had bought a house with land as we originally wanted then we could have put the garden waste in a heap to break down A few weeks ago I started to investigate shredders, at our last house i borrowed one from a friend but it got blocked up quickly, surly things must have improved. Looking

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Simply Kernow Business Directory

Simply Kernow Business Directory

We run multiple websites and started a business directory for Cornish businesses a while ago. It has been growing steadily and hopefully helping people in this great county of Cornwall. Please visit the site : https://www.simplykernow.co.uk and let us know what you think in the comments below. See our article about freelancing and working from home

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Compost Thermometer

Compost Thermometer

This year our compost has not been working very well, in fact when i dug it over i found nothing but the material that I put in there. We have 4 large compost bins, each one about 3ft square. To get great compost ti needs to get up to the right temperature so that the bacteria will break down the material. I bought a compost thermometer to see if the heaps were getting hot enough and found that they were not. after a lot of hard work: Digging them out, Layering fresh green grass cuttings in with the older dry

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