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Post by daylilydude on Feb 25, 2018 7:22:45 GMT -5
Do you have a compost pile... what things do you add to it and is there anything that you do NOT add to it?
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Post by bestofour on Feb 25, 2018 9:33:08 GMT -5
I do have a compost pile and took dark, good smelling dirt from it yesterday and put where I planted peas and radishes.
I add egg shells, vegetable peels, leaves - not too many, clipping from shrubs. I don't add weeds or anything that I don't want in my yard, old vegetable garden plants in case they are diseased.
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Post by paulf on Feb 25, 2018 10:21:02 GMT -5
I do have a compost pile. Kitchen scraps, but no meat (I know some do, but not me), chopped up leaves, old tired flowers, I do put in weeds (have to think on that one), grass clippings, shredded prunings from shrubs and trees, garden clean-up except tomato plants (they get tossed to keep disease possibilities down) and any vegetables and parts after harvest.
Like most compost piles, mine does not always get heated up high enough and I do not turn it enough, but still it makes really nice compost.
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Post by octave1 on Feb 25, 2018 10:32:14 GMT -5
I have compost, although not in a pile. It's currently sitting on a fenced garden bed. I toss everything in my compost, except for weeds and animal products. Come spring I rake away the solids and leave the rest there. I don't till it under ever, and I stop adding to that bed around April. I then start the same process elsewhere in the garden.
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Post by ahntjudy on Feb 25, 2018 11:37:40 GMT -5
I have 3 of those black plastic with lids, compost bins... And like others, add plant life as small as I can cut it up by hand...and clean (non-oily) kitchen veggie scraps... Keeping spent tomato plants and other potentially diseased stuff out of it...That and obviously weed seedy weeds... If I had a decent chipper and added smaller stuff to it, I would have compost sooner...but it happens eventually...
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Post by meandtk on Feb 25, 2018 14:30:34 GMT -5
I have a pile. I add wood chips, leaves, old produce from a grocery store's fruit and veggie section, and anything else I can find.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 25, 2018 14:35:12 GMT -5
I compost all matters of vegetation. Weeds, plant debris, sticks, leaves, fruit and veg scraps, coffee filters and grounds, eggshells, ash from the fire pit, grass clippings about twice a year, as well as spent soil from buckets/pots. We do not compost once it snows, as I don't relish the idea of trudging out every other day with my bucket of scraps. Once it thaws, DH takes the tiller to it, and then a few weeks after that we start taking from the bottom of the pile for filling in the raised beds.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 25, 2018 14:45:44 GMT -5
Yes I have a compost pile and I even have pictures. That's my groundhog radish cover crop in the foreground and an empty bean trellis. I throw all of my weeds, grass clippings, leaves, dropped fruit from our trees, chicken coop manure/straw and garden debris except tomato plants (because of the risk of disease) onto the pile. I also compost all of my kitchen scraps (veggies, fruits, eggshells, coffee grounds, tea bags) except for cooked meat scraps which go to the chickens or the feral cats. Not much gets wasted around here. It's a large pile and I am fortunate to have a husband with a garden tractor and he likes to use it to turn the pile frequently. DSC00634 by Brownrexx, on Flickr DSC01742 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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