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With all the wet weather recently the springtails have been out in force. I found this Dicrytomina saundersi on top of the compost bin.
Stacked from 20 images.
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a charming little wood mouse stocking up on seeds from our compost heap - note I'm using the 100mm macro lens - I was about 2-3 feet away, and it wasn't concerned at all. More to follow ;D
Our garden, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, UK
wheelbase: 2015mm/79.5"
It's long. I switched the tires out for fatter ones, added a steering dampener to help with unloaded riding, and found a matching set of XT topmount shifters from the 90's at the Bike Church.
Quebecers will have to get used to the presence of a third recycle bin which will be designed to collect organic materials such as grass and leaves, but leftovers.
Northern Black Racer - Coluber constrictor ssp. constrictor
Location: Durham NC (USA)
I was startled to find this large racer when I opened the compost bin. I returned with my phone and a camera. Got a couple of phone shots, but the snake dove out through one of the ventilation slots when I tried to lean in for a nice macro with the camera. Oh well.
20191011_1377_7D2-50 Compost Bins
At the start of this day the bin on the right did not exist. The bin on the left was my old bin #3, built about six months ago (in autumn/fall) and was full to 1m high.
We have decided to put a 3m x 3m garden shed behind the garage (to store some of my son's stuff) and therefore the old compost bins 1 and 2 (built about a year ago) have to be moved, as well as the 1,000 litre water tank that collects rainwater from the garage roof. It will go in part of the space vacated by old bin #2.
Therefore old bin #3 (on the left) is now new bin #1, there is a new bin #2 (now with the contents of old #3/new #1) and the third bin is yet to be built.
Each bin is approximately 1.2m wide x 1m deep and up to 1m high, so today I built bin #2 and shifted 1.2 cubic metres of compost, as well as looking after the two grand kids for the last day of the school holidays. Term 4 starts on Monday!
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When the worm compost turned 6 months we celebrated with this! under is a mousse of soy cream cheese, soy vanilla pudding and chocolate, the "top soil" is chocolate and crushed cookies... And finally the worms are made from agar agar, water and raspberry jam, poured into straws. After a few hours in the fridge... voila'! WORMS.
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.
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.
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).
We have been successfully composting kitchen wastes for two years now and are very happy that we don't have a lot of garbage to throw out to the daily waste collector!
The pots are from Daily Dump, Bangalore. If you do have a bit of yard space, do consider trying this. It really is not difficult or time consuming at all.
We segregate 'Dry Waste' (plastics, paper, glass etc for recycling) and 'Wet Waste' (Vegetable peels, food, waste from cleaning the floors etc). The Dry waste needs to be given only once a week. and the wet waste comes to hardly a mug full, that I really don't need a plastic cover to dump that. I just line my waste bin with a newspaper, just so that it doesn't get messy.
Update December 2010:
Still composting at home and now cannot think of any other way! :)
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.