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What if you didn’t have the pump, and weren’t inclined to use a pump - how would you jump start the compost pile?

I wouldn't. The bacteria that do all the work require oxygen to reproduce.

/johnny

My turnips and carrots are just growing great. I read about turnips and read one could start eating the greens when nighttime temperatures are in the 40s or cooler to bring out the sweetness in the greens. Also read the normal size of a green leaf is way larger than mine so they will continue to grow - no telling when we will get into the 40s at night this far south. You can cut the greens and they keep growing back if you leave two inches still on the turnip. At some point, I want those turnips to eat along with the greens.

Squirrels are desperately trying to find something to store for the winter, because they are in the garden throughout the day. They can't get to the plants now with the net room and net over the onions and over plants on the deck, so screw them. Prissy, the Yorkie, spends a lot of her time, running them out of the garden. I cover the lower part of the big squash plant so they can't get into the bucket. Next spring, I'll put the big squash plants in the net room at the beginning.

My main purchases for spring will be a dwarf lemon tree pretty soon, and I have my various pepper seed but will get the actual plants for one container. Also have to get blackberry plants when they are ready to ship. Those are two year plants supposed to produce berries in 2014, next year.

If all these strawberry plants I have growing actually produce in the early spring, I should have fruit until the fall of next year and maybe the lemon tree will still be producing, not sure about that one. I'm going to buy the actual spice plants from Lowes next spring, have no spices now and no seed as I figured plants would be better and they are not expensive.

I have most of the veggie seed already. I want to try a lettuce that is similar to Romaine type and I have that seed.

It has rained and rained and rained this week. There was flooding in Houston and Austin. For the whole week, I must have had 8 inches. Rightly, how many inches did you get?

How about using a paint mixer, will that aerate the solution enough, for about a couple of hours?