In The Garden Was Created in 2014 by Christine West a member and plot holder in MSCG.

COMPOSTING IS EASY: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Find the right site

Ideally site your compost bin in a reasonably sunny site on bare soil. If you have to put your compost bin on concrete, tarmac or patio slabs ensure there's a layer of paper and twigs or existing compost on the bottom. Choose a place where you can easily add ingredients to the bin and get the compost out.

How to set up your bin

Add the right ingredients

Have a container available such as a kitchen caddy or old ice cream tub. Fill your kitchen caddy or container with everything from vegetable and fruit peelings to teabags, toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes and eggshells.

Take care not to compost cooked food, meat or fish.

Fill it up

Empty your kitchen caddy along with your garden waste into your compost bin. A 50/50 mix of greens and browns is the perfect recipe for good compost.

What are greens and browns? Here's a full list

Wait a while

It takes between nine and twelve months for your compost to become ready for use, so now all you need to do is wait and let nature do the work. Keep on adding greens and browns to top up your compost.

If you need tips on how to speed up your compost,read our making compost FAQs.

Ready for use

Once your compost has turned into a crumbly, dark material, resembling thick, moist soil and gives off an earthy, fresh aroma, you know it's ready to use.

Removing the compost

Lift the bin slightly or open the hatch at the bottom and scoop out the fresh compost with a garden fork, spade or trowel.

Use it

Don't worry if your compost looks a little lumpy with twigs and bits of eggshell – this is perfectly normal. Use it to enrich borders and vegetable patches, plant up patio containers or feed the lawn.

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The Groups goal was to provide and educational resource teaching gardening to people of all ages and to help those in need.

The produce that it grew in 2014 went to particapants of the learning garden, the kitchen cupboard, soup kitchen, and local churches to help people in the community.

When vandalism hit Morgan Spring Community Gardenin 2014 our program did the best we could with the help of local danations to our program to help replace and replant most of the plants destroyed.

In The Garden also helped particapants with seeds and seedlings for home gardens and gardens in the plots in the community as a way of helping people learn or expand gardening skills and to provide fresh locally grown food to people within our community.

This year we hope to expand our progran with a childrens garden.

If we can make the garden more family friendly we will be able to give families with kids an outlet where they feel and are welcome. Allowing them more freedom to garden, explore, and share their love of gardening with their kids - the next generation!