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Made from a recycled spud crate which the bottom had fallen out of. I'm very pleased with this.
Needs a few air holes and a little work to make the front removable.
Yesterday, I was greeted by a couple of lively corn cobs that I had tossed in the compost a couple of weeks ago, discards from the squash blossom soup I had made. Seems the kernels have been busy sprouting and nesting in the dark, which I found oddly pleasing.
February
Now published with 16 other photographs from this group:
Compostion
ISBN 9781-870736-17-6
17 large Premium colour photographs plus an Afterword
36 pages, 216 x 280mm, Hardback.
Retail price: £16.95 $25
Short Description: A book of 17 photographs taken of my compost caddy whenever I found the contents interesting because of the colours or composition of elements or both. The photographs were taken with natural light from a skylight which gives a variation in the speed and aperture used. This information is recorded on the facing page with date of capture. The camera used was always a Sigma DP2 with Foveon sensor.
This photo was taken in my back yard in Cary, North Carolina. My family composts bio degradable food items like egg shells, coffee beans, etc. In the picture there is a earthworm, Lumbricina. The earthworms are decomposers so they, ingest the food material and excrete it out as waste. The waste produced by the earthworms is a nutrient rich soil that can be used in gardening. The waste produce from the worms is full of carbon and nitrogen. The plants are able to get the nutrients they need to grow from this waste product.
I don't know why this tomato was unfit for neither salad nor sauce, but here it sits at the edge of a compost pile waiting to go back to the bottom of the food chain.
Cells 1 and 2 of the 2008 sheet composting season. Materials began being delivered April 22, 2008. These cells are mostly leaves from previous year and dry thatch from spring work on the lawns.
Marni Thompson (L), NRCS soil health specialist, and Kailee Calnan, NRCS supervisory district conservationist (R) use a brix meter to test the level of sugar in green growing crops where compost extract was applied in the field to help get a relative idea of the health of the plant. Larry Johnson, Shawn Preputin, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
Compost Cookie
Pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, butterscotch,
chocolate chips. ($1.85 ea./3 for $5)
The kitchen sink of Milk Bar's cookies.
Read about these cookies at the ulterior epicure.
Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, mix wettened raw materials used to create compost extract that is prepared and applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
Checking the temperature of the aerated water to see if I will need to feed the microbes in the compost tea. Usually between 70 - 80 degrees doesn't need molasses, but I'm going to add it anyway since I plan to use the tea pretty quickly.
The finished compost bin, before it was moved to it's permanent home. The lid is made from a old glass storm door.
Everyone has a different compost caddy ... no two alike!
Why don't we eat more Chard?
February
Now published with 16 other photographs from this group:
Compostion
ISBN 9781-870736-17-6
17 large Premium colour photographs plus an Afterword
36 pages, 216 x 280mm, Hardback.
Retail price: £16.95 $25
Short Description: A book of 17 photographs taken of my compost caddy whenever I found the contents interesting because of the colours or composition of elements or both. The photographs were taken with natural light from a skylight which gives a variation in the speed and aperture used. This information is recorded on the facing page with date of capture. The camera used was always a Sigma DP2 with Foveon sensor.
Professor David Bellamy opening the wildlife garden at Lydgate Infant School, Sheffield in 1991. I worked on this garden with a team of trainees from Sheffield City Wildlife Project.
Seeing this makes me nostalgic for Compost Corner.
This is a scan of a 35mm Kodachrome slide taken with a Nikon F-401.
notice the surfeit of coffee grounds. rachael ray's garbage bowl can eat its heart out.
from an old cd.
Tidy Cat litter bins, washed out, kept on the back porch for winter compost. Up next: bacteria, yeast, garlic and soil.
To the left you can see some soil and rock samples in ziploc bags. I have about 2 dozen at this point for various experiments.
I like the look of compost. This year there were volunteer tomatoes, melons and cucumbers from mixing the compost from last year into the garden soil. One spring a beautiful tiger salamander crept out of the compost after spending the winter in the depths of compost.
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If you aren't interested in my compost woes, I apologize and urge you to move right along...
My tumbling composter did an amazing job of turning my food scraps into a sodden, sludgy mess infested with fruit flies. Bah. The mix between greens and browns was way off, then a big rain storm plus lawn thatch made for gross, slimy clumps of grossness..
So I emptied the tumbler out onto plastic sheets and left it to bake in the sun. I moved it onto the bricks later to keep warming it from below. I'm pretty sure this compost is 50% fly maggots right now so I'm hoping the sun and drying will kill them off.
From now on I'm going to try to balance the amount of paper and fruit/veg scraps as I add them to the bucket in my kitchen. The bad news is, I have the other side of the composter yet to dry out.
Ho hum.
a compost bin was added at my apartment, but it's the same color/kind of bin as recycling and trash. so, this is the result.
(not pictured: yet another sign like the one at the top of the photo that is hanging just to the left.)
sigh.