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2 years later, we have fresh compost/soil for the garden.
The in-coming baby makes an attempt to bust out of the shirt...
The barrel is from a local hospital (don't worry - no biohazard materials) and the frame is the roll bar from a Jeep CJ7. The steel bar going through the center is from our closets. When we moved in the previous owners had used steel pipe for the hang bars in all the closets. We saved them all when we updated the closets... 9 years later we pulled one out for a compost bin. Who would have thought?!
The pee toilet goes into a container and poop only in the pit. A man designed this toilet. A two story toilet does not seem to appeal to women. And there is not seated pee toilet.
You know what,I have never killed a slug in my life deliberately.I like them and their eyes on stalks...amazing little things! Recently though,all my attempts to grow chillies,cucumbers,beetroots etc have been thwarted by slugs and they are even raiding the biscuits I put out for my neighbour's cats. They must have something akin to TEETH in their slimey bodies,as I can hear them crunching!!These monsters in my compost bin are massive,about 10cm long.As the bin had a lid on just prior to this,the nasty breathing holes on the side of the them were wide open,even though I love snails and slugs,these knocked me sick!!!
The box that Don Fitzgerald helped me build a few years ago. A few boards are cracking, but it has held up well. I was "turning" the compost when this picture was taken which involves moving most of it from one side to the other.
In our West Coast environment, composting needs plenty of air circulation so that the kitchen scraps and garden waste actually compost - an aerobic process that produces little odour. The widely used black plastic bins are not so great - poor air circulation, very hard to turn or empty, and SMELLY! Our solution is this two-lidded box made of Western Red Cedar and wire mesh (sometimes we even have wire mesh panels on the sides, too). The front boards are removable, right down to the ground, so turning and emptying are easy.
Here's the patch of dirt where I'm going to build the compost heap. The bricks are the ones I got from a dumpster down the street from a building renovation, and used for edging along the little yard by the patio. The yard itself used to be patio. 4 years ago I had some guys dig up the cement and haul it off, then I hauled in 3 truckloads of dirt in my pickup truck and spread it out on the yard-to-be. My neighbor Sha over the years did a lot of work to water and seed the area with grass and clover. The clover has done very well. The dirt itself was very poor quality and we didn't consciously try to rehab it. The grass mostly dies off in summer. Needs too much water. So, in this corner I moved the bricks out from the edging. I'll build a smallish frame with stakes and wood slats. There are cedar trees above it, so the soil that's there starts out quite acidic.
Back in 2005, I used three plastic trash cans as compost bins. I now use two Smith & Hawkins BioStack Compost Bins, but still use these to handle the overflow and to store finished compost that is ready to use.
This is the photo I use for my LiveJournal and Flickr icons.
WINE OR COMPOST? Diana picked up five bags of neighbor pears. Question is, will Deborah Stewart help us make wine, or should I put them in compost pile. Neighbor sez they are not good eating 'cause the seem to never fully ripen, but there are BUSHELS available.
the -in mexico organic- solidarity coffee café caracol from chiapas, mexico going back into the ground.