Hot gases from decomposting green waste are drawn out through this ducting.

It would take an organic farmer to post such a sign on his boundary fence; I wonder what grows beyond the native bush on the other side of that barbed wire.

Castle Hills Thonock Gainsborough.

A little fantasy fun after making squash soup

Good for compost, I understand.

Nature having its way with these Leaves.

In your garden, pull up any dead plants and lay them on the ground around healthy plants. You can also chop them up and mix them into the soil.

While leaves changing color in the fall are dying, they are not dead. A cold snap will kill the leaves the same as it will on the leaves of most your other plants.

Time to get that Composting Bin started.

Eskilstuna, Sweden 2011

We were surprised to look out to see these sweet ladies in our yard. One of them was very interested in our compost!

I feel terrible for wildlife lately because the air quality is horrendous due to the Canadian wildfires. For several days it’s been in the “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy” range, with a constant haze in the air. While we have the option of closing windows & filtering our air, they do not.

This was a family friends' garden centre after the final days of trade. It's now demolished.

Superb Fairy-wrens were particularly observant and appeared already while I was busy with the compost and they seemed to be working alongside me.

(Malurus cyaneus)

I've hardly finished some work on a rather neglected compost át the back of friends' veggie garden when several neigbours from the adjacent National Park arrived to appreciate my work. The Satin Bowerbirds came in numbers and allowed me to observe their likes and dislikes, as well as the way they deal with the food on offer. TBC

(Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

We’ve been taking steps to impact the earth less and minimize our waste, such as reducing our plastic use and purchasing less. One thing I’ve been wanting to do for a while is to start composting again (we weren’t very successful with it several years ago), and after researching it for a while, we finally started. The bin works great for this environment because we tend to get a lot of dampness & humidity here. Plus, it’s made from untreated cedar instead of plastic. The pail is for keeping on our kitchen counter and is perfect, complete with a filter to keep the smells in the pail.

The green waste collected from households and commercial gardeners is wetted down and put into these massive rooms on one side of the building. It quickly starts to decompose and the temperature rises to around 60C.

All this heat causes steam to escape from the hanger doors.

I was a little bothered that my photographer friend was able to whip out his phone and get la perfect HDR in one shot, so I took it as a challenge. I consider this as much digital art as photography, and not really the kind of photo I strive for

Compost Pile.

Kraftvolle Düfte, trostlose Farbtöne, hartes Grün, Meditation, gefährliche Rottöne, heftige Purpurtöne, gleichzeitig seltsame Winde, traurige Vögel,

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指を握る最も深いナイフ 融合したアイデア 怪物を抱きしめる 嵐の小石の下で膨れ上がった死体 際立った大規模な押し合いの青ざめた動き 絶え間ない雲のリサイクル ゴミ計画の例.

Steve.D.Hammond.

Trash- It seems to me after review of the pictures before me, we could do a lot of composting and recycling to reduce the world waste stream. Unfortunately this tea bag creates landfill in it's packaging. The acid loving plants enjoy the tea bag it's self. I start the day creating waste, perhaps a different brand in the future.

Explore #129.

View Large on Black.

This is what our compost looks like at the moment. It proves that the compost soil is excellent, and that the garden care is somewhat neglected :)

Soundtrack: youtube.com/watch?v=doYNBHE8Yes

Nikon D300, 18-200@200mm, 1/30s, f/6.5, ISO 320. Treatment: shady white balance, increased saturation, added vignette. (DSC_1761)

Natures way of Recycling its self.

On its way to the compost bin...

Most of the strawberries were lovely - this one seems to be growing rather a lot of mould !!!!!

'Destination: Compost' On Black

Composting a pomegranate.

This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #PaintItBlack

Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Peint le en noir

O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Pinte de preto

本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #把它涂黑

FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Mal es schwarz

El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Pintarlo negro

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Macro Mondays - Trick or Treat

Some years ago we warned local children that if they threw eggs at our house when denied a treat their compost heap would become infested with ghoulish horrors.

This creature was recently found on one of their garden paths - clearly tortured to reveal the location of where where others might be hiding. You have been warned!

No apples were actually harmed during the capture of this individual, it's a mock up.

I thought the snow on the lid of this compost bin looks like the radioactivity symbol.

The Flickr Lounge-Made Of Wood

These are wood pallets we got from a local business to use for our compost bins. The Rhubarb is growing on the left side and a volunteer Delicata Squash is growing in front of the bin.

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Four months ago I took this picture because I felt so captivated by the ordinary details I found in these pieces of peppers I had sliced that were to be discarded. Even though this would become compost material I really appreciated the colors, shapes, and light I saw here. I find “real” food/fresh produce so beautiful and interesting in appearance and love how I feel so thankful and excited when thinking about the nutrients and benefits fresh produce provides for our bodies. I’m thankful I took the time to capture what I saw.

The largest of the abandoned barges I photographed on this day. The wood timbers are so substantial that they partially turn to compost long before they totally disintegrate. Some of the barges have a thicket of shrubbery growing on top; this one had smaller plants on the side.

The original swimming pool is still intact on the grounds of the circa-1910 Cornish Estate near Cold Spring, N.Y. There had to have been a great view of the Hudson Highlands down the slope before all these trees sprouted.

A port-a-loo is always a great place to make compost and grow flowers

These might as well be wallpaper

Nature Recycling, what it made.

The Trevor Carpenter 2018 Photo Challenge

WEEK 15: APRIL 2008/2010 FLASHBACK – ENTROPY

We keep this little metal pail in our kitchen to throw out vegetable matter for compost.

I opened it today and thought, since the stuff hadn't decayed all that much, the variety of colors and textures were pretty cool. I thought it would make for an interesting photo for Entropy.

I've sunk to new lows in trying to get some pictures taken during the lock down. This is the contents of my backyard composter.

Here is a Composting company that runs in Milwaukee.

Not the tidiest of gardens, it takes a lot of work keeping it this scruffy LOL.

We get a lot of wildlife though and the compost gets used up every year. Squizzy loves this bit as it is close to the trees and he/she can make his/her getaway. The snow has now gone from the back garden, not so with the front.

In my garden Stafford UK 23rd January 2023

Remains of Mid-40s Chevrolet coupe permanently residing alongside an abandoned logging road.

More frost covered leaves

giving up their lives to make a rich forest compost. One of our local organic farmers says this is how he leaarned to take care of his garden without fertilizers and bug sprays. I have seen his garden and it is impressive. Next time, I'm going to ask what he does about the slugs who thrive on everything I plant in my garden.They do not eat what is already here.How do they know?