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Squirrel dining on top of the compost bin set with a snow and pine needle table cloth.
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Series of three. I found this interesting spider on the underside of the compost bin lid. Not one I have seen before. An ID would be appreciated, if anyone knows what it is. I think it is Steatoda grossa or nobilis, dark variety.
This tomato volunteered from seed from tomatoes we tossed in the compost pile last year. It's finally putting on some fruit.
Evening walk through the gardens.
These snapdragons have grown up in the 3rd compost bin (where the soil is most mature), providing a nice surprise. As my friend gently chided, we need to stir the compost more often! :-)
September 23, 2016.
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I have been composting all food scraps throughout the winter, no meat or bones. I even have a generous group of friends who drop off their kitchen compost for me throughout the year. I share what vegetables I get with them during the season. It's a win, win! I have resolved this year that nothing leaves the garden space. Everything goes in the bin. If there are invasive weeds they get sun dried before being put in the bin.
The Archdruid has turned his peak oil/deindustrializing blog into a course in Green Wizardry. His first practical assignment is to learn to make compost and think about rethinking our industrialized food growing system and start solving our problems within the ecological system itself using what nature already offers more efficiently and with little waste instead of mining all the necessary nutrients separately and ripping off mountain tops to do it or other such ridiculously destructive thing.
Catherine has taken over the composting regime because she wanted to make sure that the proper amounts of carbon were mixed in with the kitchen scraps and then watered. I was being too lazee fair about it and not keeping things moist. She says compost making is just like cooking. Here we can see the lovely redwood shavings I got from Martine and Hilary's house. They live in the redwoods and a fallen tree from last winter was cut up into firewood leaving three giant bags full of wood shavings.
I like to turn compost and sift it. It's very meditative. The Archdruid talks about what I call the ick factor and he calls the Squick factor that keeps people from returning to earth based systems. When I kept a worm bin, my worms were so happy they multiplied prodigiously and when I went to harvest the vermi-compost I was left with a 7 lbs mass of wriggling worms that tipped even my ick factor, but then I adjusted; they were very clean and looked like lava flowing. Wish I had a picture of that, but it was pre-digital.
A wide view of the organic wastes compost bin where worms and soldier fly larvae make soil for next year's garden. This is about 1 to 2 feet deep. Once we turn it in the Fall, it will be the consistency of soil.
Check out sub zero Utah winter @bens.backyard from Instagram shared his amazing composting effort with a 400litre Aerobin! Inside above F80 or C30! Fantastic!
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The Flickr Lounge-Metallic
I decided that a metal Compost Bin was better than one that is breakable.
Series of three. I found this interesting spider on the underside of the compost bin lid. Not one I have seen before. An ID would be appreciated, if anyone knows what it is. I think it is Steatoda grossa or nobilis, dark variety.
Possibly the best garbage can (um sorry, waste manage unit) money can buy.
Built by Metrik Studio. Website by Barking Dog Studios Inc.
The barrel is from a local hospital (don't worry - no biohazard materials) and the frame is the roll bar from a Jeep CJ7. The steel bar going through the center is from our closets. When we moved in the previous owners had used steel pipe for the hang bars in all the closets. We saved them all when we updated the closets... 9 years later we pulled one out for a compost bin. Who would have thought?!
This image was actually from a few days later than where I am chronologically in our trip itinerary but it reminds me of our traveling day from Holt/Chester through London on the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral and on to Brighton for 2 nights before Rye/Bexhill. I didn't have a chance to get my camera ready for other traveling photos since everyone was on high-alert with the funeral activities and we needed to make a close connection from Euston to Victoria Stations. As it turned out Victoria Station underground tube had lost its electricity so our connection was whittled down to mere minutes after having to take a bus for some of the stops to get to Victoria. This was probably the worst day of our 3 week vacation and the beginning of being on our own in the national grid.
Back in 2005, I used three plastic trash cans as compost bins. I now use two Smith & Hawkins BioStack Compost Bins, but still use these to handle the overflow and to store finished compost that is ready to use.
This is the photo I use for my LiveJournal and Flickr icons.
One of my photos of our compost bin appears in the book "I Garden: Urban Style" by Reggie Solomon and Michael Nolan.
You can order the book from Amazon.
This year (07/08) I added a thick insulation wall to help keep in the warmth. The system is working far better than last winter!
This suite of planters was custom built in our new woodshop - and carefully fitted to the client's particular space. The planters provide almost 60 square feet of growing space, while stairs allow her to access the cement planters, built into the condo structure, behind the balcony. In the summer, she can entertain guests in a lush garden setting.