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I've been saving vegetable and fruit scraps all week to bring to my friends' house to put in their compost pile. I'm not always so good about that, but somehow having to pinch my pennies makes me much more cognizant of getting the most out of the food.
Yard compost angles around the shed. There are three sections and each year each section gets rotated to a new section or used in the garden.
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I put all the recyclable kitchen food items in this and it gets dumped into our large compost pile in the backyard by the Hoop House.
I find compost very pretty: the colours, the stratification, the juxtaposition of food stuffs. It's like a dietary diary (except the grass, that's from the rabbits).
Screened a windrow and put the compost in the shed. Should help to keep it a lot drier than just sitting out on the mud.
An old deep tiller I use after the bags have been emptied on the field. Chisel spikes worked the best.
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My daughter, Racheal gave this to me. I put scraps of fruit and vegetables in it and it should create compost in 3-5 hours. I can use it in my house plants and during the spring I can feed my shade garden with it.
What nature drops into the environment composts and regenerates into new growth.
The same cannot be said for mankind's deposits.
December
Now a book. Tho this one wasn't selected.
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Composting in action! Right now the soil is sitting about 8' deep spread out over a 30' X 24' space.
Compost bin scenes. A springtail along with a whole lot of springtail skins (the white things). Focus stacked using zerene
Composting is a form of waste disposal where organic waste decomposes naturally under oxygen-rich conditions. ... In addition to food waste, yard waste, such as grass clippings and leaves, can also be added to compost containers. These items will help increase decomposition and help reduce odor as materials break down.
BREAKING NEWS My 400th picture to be viewed over 1,000 times (July 2015). First uploaded March 2014.
I got me a 7 Cu-Ft (52 gal.) composter for the backyard - recycle more of my trash into something useful.
I mentioned to a fellow employee that used coffee make a good fertilizer, or compost ingredient. Then the following Monday my desk is covered with used coffee grains.
This bucket of soil started life as (non-meat) kitchen waste. After six months or so in a pile with occasional turnings of soil and shredded newspaper, it goes back to the garden. A satisfying domestic activity!
I haven't bought a bag of "topsoil" in years!
The leaves are new shoots of Four O'Clocks--Mirabilis Jalapa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabilis_jalapa