11.02.2009

Rottin' Luck

No, that isn't a misspelling in the title. I am referring my great compost experiment. In our new yard, we have a little fenced area that the previous owners had used for a garden. I thought it would be fun/educational for the kids if we planted a garden, too. In all the craziness of the summer, we didn't manage to grow anything but a particularly lush patch of weeds and stickers.

What I did manage to accomplish was starting a compost project. I have a little scrap crock that I keep by the sink and about once per week the kids and I dump it into the bin. I was a little worried that my ratio of green (wet food scraps) to brown (dry leaves and grass) was skewed and the magic of composting wasn't going to happen - or at the very least, would be slowed WAAAAAY down. But when I went out to deposit this week's collection of food scraps, my compost bin was generating its own heat. Whee!

By spring I may have enough for a tiny corner of my garden! Sigh. I never said I was efficient!

3 comments:

  1. Congrats on your compost!!!
    I used to have a small one in a flower pot on my balcony (ah, city living)... Who knew a compost pile could bring so much satisfaction?!

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  2. that's what my parents and grandparents did. Just threw their scraps in the corner of the garden. That and feed some table scraps to the pigs. My grandparents were farmers.

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  3. that is great. That is the first thing I am going to start when we get a house....someday.

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