Composting Madness
by
ImaginAcres
This is the story of our first year as composters, and how we obsessed over our compost heap named Marjorie. She was named so after the trash heap in Fraggle Rock, and even took on her own personality through the course of the season.
We compost everything and anything around here, including our junk mail! What better way to get rid of sensitive information than to let it rot and toss it in the garden? We also get creative with combining composting with raising chickens by letting our birds into the bin once in awhile to stir up the contents for us. They're happy for the chance to eat all the delicious bugs, and we're happy we don't have to do the dirty work of stirring it up ourselves!
Come along and read about our failures and successes as first time composters, and how even a compost heap that's completely ignored can still function.
We compost everything and anything around here, including our junk mail! What better way to get rid of sensitive information than to let it rot and toss it in the garden? We also get creative with combining composting with raising chickens by letting our birds into the bin once in awhile to stir up the contents for us. They're happy for the chance to eat all the delicious bugs, and we're happy we don't have to do the dirty work of stirring it up ourselves!
Come along and read about our failures and successes as first time composters, and how even a compost heap that's completely ignored can still function.
Frankie Checking out the goods
Our compost coffin
Choppin' up pumpkins to add to the heap
Dee Dee helping to turn the compost
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If you garden, you should compost. You create brown gold and this soil will give your plants the nutrition they need for a good start, next spring. Continue adding to the compost all winter, if the snow isn't too deep to access it.
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Hahaha!! I named my first compost bin, too!! His name was Igor! ;)
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