In our 'Secret Garden' at the back of Room 11 there is a very special pile. You may look at it and think that it is just a pile of grass clippings, leaves and sticks - WRONG! There is so much more happening in that pile then you could ever imagine! Microorganisms are so tiny that you can't even see them - but man are they busy! They are breaking down the sticks, dry leaves, dead plants and grass clippings and turning it all into COMPOST which is great for the garden. The amazing thing is that the compost pile actually gets hot - yes HOT! We are talking 40 degrees celcius HOT! To give you a bit of an idea we took the air temperature and that was 15.7 degrees celcius. Then we stuck the thermometer into the middle of the compost and guess what! 40 degrees! Now that is tropical! Check out our photos below....
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| Add some grass clippings... It's getting BIGGER.... 
Add some WATER......
Wood Chips.....
And BIGGER...
 A week later...   
WOW!
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