composter bin

For the next months I want M. to get to know and understand how nature works and what must be our contribution to nature. I was waiting for a bit of sunshine after all this rain to get starting with our gardening projects: first of all make a little home made composter bin, to teach M. that nothing in nature goes to waste and how composter is so important for plants and that she can make a contribution to the cycle of nature. We made the composter bin in a small scale just to start off. A small containers with holes, some soil on the bottom of the container and as many vegetarian left over as possible, I covered ours with cardboard.

Now she is aware that potatoes, carrots peels, egg shells, banana skin etc are all good to make compost and she is always remember to fill up the composter bin! Of course she knows that compost is good food for plants, so we must grow a few plants to give the compost to. As last year we got growing veg, but this year I want to add a couple of new friends: we already have quite tall tomatoes plants (4), we have already eaten our spinach and lettuce and already seeded for more of them and iceberger lettuce, we then prepared to have green beans and cucumbers.