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I got this slightly upmarket compost bin (well very upmarket compared to my usual home made compost retention solutions!) during the week. I was unreasonably excited today putting it together and filling it ( I cut the grass, pulled some weeds from gravel, cleared out the henhouse, added a bin of shreded hedge cuttings from last year, tore up collected cardboard, a bag of straw that got damp and added some cold produced compost that will be very weedy unless I give it a good heating in a new heap. So satisfying & 14k steps!
I do think I have the ratios roughly right and that the whole thing will be getting hot by tomorrow evening. It will shrink and I will add another few batches of material over next 2-3 weeks
The Clash - Cool Under Heat
Is this fun or what?!? Layering straw and horse manure into a big pile to cook up some fabulous compost for next year
We cheated by running it over with the mulching lawn mower, but good compost is good any way you find it.
The steamy atmosphere of our compost heap certainly attracts a variety of creepy crawlies - but here at the top of the food chain are several Slow Worms basking in it's humidity - plus the odd snack too whilst enjoying each other's company
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I have three large clay pots filled with fabulous pinecones in my garden. Today I discovered that I now have a compost heap in one of the pots. Love nature.
Fascinating bit of decay in the old railroad repair shop, which also was a repository for millions of sheets of paper records. The roof has rotted into a spider web, so it has been pouring water onto these file cabinets for decades. As a result, the metal is peeling apart like an onion and the paper is turning back into pulp.
It’s remarkable to think of all the hours spent writing, typing and archiving this stuff by hand — it’s mostly from the pre-computer era.
Another of life's thresholds crossed.
The flowers were on their way to the compost bin as I interrupted their final journey.
October
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: £18 $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.
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Compositionally Challenged Week 19 is Made of Wood.
These compost bins are made of old, weathered cedar fence boards.
Natural composting continuing the cycles and recycles of big biowaste products... in this case pygmy elephant shit. In the rainforest of Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo (Let's all do our part! recycle, reuse, reclaim)
Compost sign in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
Part of an ongoing series of Creative Commons images of signs.