I sit in the blue chairs while Mrs Binger does all the work. I like to wave at all the traffic on Historic Highway 89! Also the umbrella table is the employee lounge. Our hand insisted on having a place for a cool one.
Posted on 06/19/2012 6:49:08 AM PDT by orsonwb
Composting. Learn the basics, benefits, components, no-no's, and six ways to get started...
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I endorse composting 100 percent, it’s great.
Garden ping
I throw weeds in mine and have had no problems. The only thing that has risen from the dead once I use the final compost product in my garden beds is tomatoes (from kitchen scraps)! I had one tomato plant last year that actually grew out of an air vent in the composter and eventually produced nice tomatoes. This year I have 4 - one growing out of a different air vent and three that cropped up in my pepper bed after I added the compost. I transplanted them and they are doing better than the store bought plants.
Earthworms!
I throw weeds in mine, too. My “composter” is an old metal food barrel drilled full of holes. I’ve been doing it that way for years without a problem.
Last year I let my chickens roam free on my lawn. They clucked picked pecked plucked all sorts of grasses. One day I looked and there were seven tomato plants growing in my lawn. The chickens had weeded around these plants exposing them. I’m not sure why they didn’t pick on them, maybe because they smell different? I tended to those lawn tomatoes till TS Irene stopped by.
Those tomatoes sure were a conversation piece. Who in their right mind would plant stuff in the middle of their lawn? A chaotic owner? LOL
I’m just curious how those tomato plants seeded themselves there.
I sit in the blue chairs while Mrs Binger does all the work. I like to wave at all the traffic on Historic Highway 89! Also the umbrella table is the employee lounge. Our hand insisted on having a place for a cool one.
My new favorite composting method is the easy leaf compost. Rake wet leaves into a large garbage bag. Poke a few holes in the bag. Let it sit out for 2 years then it’s ready to use.
Those buggers can wiggle underground fast! I've gotten good - can give the robins a run for their money!
I hear there are thousands of copies of the 2700 page “Obamacare”, soon to be available for composting...
Most likely a critter ate a tomato then pooped the seeds in your yard.
Most likely a critter ate a tomato then pooped the seeds in your yard.
Most likely a critter ate a tomato then pooped the seeds in your yard.
Sorry for the triple post, sticky i-pad. ;)
>>> the 2700 page “Obamacare”
Those should have been declared “toxic waste”......
Pinging all the gardeners. Compost is one of the most important additions you can add to your garden soil.
Great set up for your raised beds. What are you growing?
LOL! Great garden! :)
Your chickens might have reasoned if they picked your tomatoes, that would hasten their trip to the stew pot.
The re-planters here are the squirrels. They keep busy planting pecans in the garden so I have to keep busy pulling up the new sprouts.
Got my composter free from the extension office. I think A&M had some sort of program going at the time. All it is is a foldable four square section of coated fencing with a tube of fencing for the middle. Have to turn it with a hoe or something. It’d be easy enough to make one or just have a pile of compost.
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