The Best Laid Plans…

If you are being lazy about using your creative intelligence, natural forces will work their hardest to overwhelm and undermine your inadequate design.

Linda Woodrow, The Permaculture Home Garden.

I put my compost bin in a stupid place so now I have to wheelbarrow the compost up a flight of concrete stairs to the new garden beds. A good permaculture design is all about making the various elements in the garden work together harmoniously in order to reduce the hard work.

The best place for the compost bin is where the compost is to be used.

To be fair to myself though, the compost bin placement worked in my original plan. Alas, my beautiful circle garden is not going to happen as the space has been taken over by my children. Which is ok, because it’s ultimately less effort to build a new garden in a slightly different place than it would be to try and keep the children’s games out of an area they naturally are drawn to.