Residents in Watford Collect 10 Tonnes of Free Compost

Residents in Watford collect 10 tonnes of free compost

Green-fingered residents in Watford have snapped up 10 tonnes of free compost, giving their gardens a nutrient-rich boost.

Look what I found in the compost bin

Steatoda borealis, the boreal combfoot! They’re coming back! I was getting worried…I’ve reliably had a thriving population of these false widows in our compost bin. They disappear every winter, unsurprisingly, and then come back in the spring, plump and fully grown. They were late this year, I think because my wife shoveled out most of the compost for her garden (the nerve! That’s now what the bin is for, it’s for fostering a colony of spiders!)…