Composting!
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curiouswombatYesterday D-d and I went to the garden centre and bought a compost bin. I know lots of you people with proper gardens will have compost heaps - but we garden in pots on paving stones, yet got annoyed by having to throw away stuff we could re-cycle into compost.
So - we now have a big black compost bin, and put lots of the dead leaves from last autumn(!) and dead plants, old compost etc. into it, complete with some worms that were already in the dead leaves which had avoided the wind and been quietly composting in the corner behind the oil tank. And we have sorted out a small tub in the kitchen for food waste to then be emptied into the big bin - so we feel all organised now, and quite proud of ourselves!
So in honour I bring you this wonderfully silly musical link Marvellous Compost Bin" which as it is not on U-tube doesn't seem to be embedable - but go and enjoy!
So - we now have a big black compost bin, and put lots of the dead leaves from last autumn(!) and dead plants, old compost etc. into it, complete with some worms that were already in the dead leaves which had avoided the wind and been quietly composting in the corner behind the oil tank. And we have sorted out a small tub in the kitchen for food waste to then be emptied into the big bin - so we feel all organised now, and quite proud of ourselves!
So in honour I bring you this wonderfully silly musical link Marvellous Compost Bin" which as it is not on U-tube doesn't seem to be embedable - but go and enjoy!
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Date: 16/04/2007 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 16/04/2007 04:06 pm (UTC)We have three compost bins - I can't believe that they are nearly all full too! *g*
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Date: 16/04/2007 04:26 pm (UTC)It is a wonderfully silly song, isn't it?
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Date: 16/04/2007 05:01 pm (UTC)I have a very small back garden too; mostly rocks but a little landscaping. I'm thinking about a compost bin for just those reasons! My folks have always been very into composting. They'd be proud of me!
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Date: 16/04/2007 05:46 pm (UTC)The instructions started 'Place bin onto soil. If you are placing it on concrete, place a one inch layer of soil down first.' So we put it in a shady corner by the shed, where things had been composting themselves quietly and there were worms already, then put some compost out of a couple of the big pots that needed replanting, and hopefully that will do!
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Date: 16/04/2007 08:43 pm (UTC)Well.... if things go quiet on S2C's journal, and then I post about a very good crop on my new blueberry bushes....
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Date: 17/04/2007 05:11 am (UTC)I have a large area between the shed and fence. I compost kitchen waste, leaves, anything organic (except for meat--don't want to draw any more wildlife than we already have). I even save dryer lint! It takes longer to break down than leaves, but it's organic, too.
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Date: 16/04/2007 10:03 pm (UTC)I have a kind of accidental compost bin that sets itself up in the stairwell to my basement every winter. Since I don't use it all winter long -- and in fact shovel snow into there to get it off the garage pad -- all the leaves and junk that collect in there become very ... um ... composty.
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Date: 16/04/2007 10:12 pm (UTC)Your 'heap' sounds a bit like the unofficial one behind our oil tank.
Yes, I liked the dancing cauliflower ...
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