Posted on 05/19/2009 5:11:40 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Don't over think it; it's just compost...heck, we're ALL just compost in the end, LOL! :)
bump
Ping to the Weekly Gardening Thread!
Garden Ping! Rally the troops. Lots of good info here. :)
Oh, Goody! Glad you found this, I can NEVER remember those three numbers at the end of your handle!
I usually end up pinging “668 Neighbor of the Beast” by accident, LOL!
Composting/vermiculture ping!
I am impatient with compost. I always want it now! But luckly I always give in to that urge and wait!
I can’t have a compost “pile”.....so I just dig holes and “compost” stuff....breaking it up with the shovel....and then BURY it.....will my yard survive?
ping me
VMFA-232 - we were very good - fast moving bad guys in Vietnam!
You are added!
Great article. I don’t compost, simply because I don’t have time. We did just rake all the wheat straw out of the chicken coop... I’ve been thinking about starting a compost pile for years. Might just do it. Now... If I can just figure out how to keep those double-damned fireants out of my pile... :)
Great article!!!!!!!!!
RD is a true gardener and gardener friend for helping us out here!! On his advice I posted the gardening ping list on my home page........so anyone can use it.
A hole for composting is no different than a trench for composting. Long before it was “the” thing to do, my mother would make a trench along side a garden row, where she placed whatever kitchen scraps etc she had. Time and nature took care of it all. Her trenchs were four inches or so deep, four or five inches wide and she covered the scraps with the dirt she had just moved to create the place to put the scraps. Worked very well.
My 2 horses provide a constant and reliable source of compost fertilizer, and it’s all natural too! Hee Hee.
I do most of my composting with worms. I also have a passive compost pile as described by the author. I love letting the worms do all of the work for me.
That’s a GREAT way to compost.
“...will my yard survive?”
Of course it will! But as soon as the Lefties figure out how to tax us on each tomato we produce for our OWN benefit...I’m not sure how long America will survive. ;)
I’ve thrown Plenty-O-Scraps into the western windbreak line of our HUGE Norway Spruce over the years. (They were planted in 1906; they appreciate ANY scrap of nutritional kindness that comes their way.)
And I NEVER waste a banana peel. Either the hens will eat it or I blend it up with some water and feed it to my rose bushes. :)
Nature wastes not a thing...though I’m thinking in Real Life, Nature doesn’t usually find a banana peel on her back in southern Wisconsin, LOL!
“I always look for your posts.”
Even on my crabby days? LOL!
*SMOOCH*
Those fire ants must be unreal. I can’t even imagine it!
See me in September when I’m over-run with grasshoppers. Man, I HATE those creepy, crawly, scratchy things! (June Bugs, too!)
If ANYTHING deserves to be Bird Food, they both do!
*SHUDDER*
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.