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February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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Posted by
sylviatexas z8a Tx (
My Page) on
Thu, Feb 3, 11 at 13:27
| Sorry, I'm a little late!
Today & yesterday & the day before, my compost got snow, ice, frigid wet stuff from the sky!
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RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| While I was shoveling the 5' snow drift away from the back door, so I could open it, I found a frozen squirrel under the drift. The squirrel went into the compost pile, right on top of the snow drift that the pile is buried under. |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| Got out into the garden to start cleaning things up. I added some yukky chard and broccoli leaves, some weeds, coffee grounds, tea bags, salad trimmings, a couple of match sticks, some dryer lint, a couple of paper towels and napkins, a couple of ripped up bread heels and 2 popcicle sticks. MMMMM fudgesicles! |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| So gross about the squirrel. Poor thing! :( Today, I added egg shells and kiwi skins from breakfast (triying to eat healthier), napkins, and a banana peel. Nancyjane, how well does dryer lint compost? I haven't had great sucess in the past. Kim |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| Chickweed, chickweed and more chickweed. |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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- Posted by jolj 7b/8a (My Page) on
Fri, Feb 4, 11 at 18:42
| lots & lots of rain, at least it was not SNOW!!!!!!:-D |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| Kim, I don't always dump it in. When I think about it I kinda shred it with my hands a bit and mix it in. It's not a regular thing. Nancy |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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lotsa newspaper
coffee grounds & filters
used tea bags
bits of soggy pancake
potato, onion, & carrot peelings |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| A half gallon of fridge pickles that were hiding in the back of the fridge. 1/2 gallon of kitchen scraps, most were egg shells. I seen rabbit tracks in the snow on top of the pile. The poor thing must be desperate. Curt |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| Coffee grounds that Starbucks begrudgingly gave me, marigold plants from last year, egg shells, and rain. It's suprisingly warm here today. And Curt, spread out some alfalfa for that little guy! :) Kim |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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- Posted by batya Israel north 8-9-10 (My Page) on
Fri, Feb 18, 11 at 8:21
| We're finally getting a whole year's rain in a few weeks. All is damp. The unfinished pile went on a new raised lasagna bed, under a euc tree! Keep fingers crossed. New pile started with Slimy fruit salad, UCG, soup fixin's and peels, pulled weeds mostly clover, old wet brown leaves, and my dead winter plants. Today is sunny, rest of the week will be pouring. |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| 7 tubs of horse manure with bedding,shredded paper,a small bag of leaves, UCG,paper towels,vegetables used to make chicken stock, orange peels, leftover tuna melt sandwich,and one bad apple! |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| UCGs and filters, eggshells, old salad mix, banana peels, in layers with shredded paper |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| Heaps of UCG and a bucket load of vegetable scraps from our local grocer. Some dried grass and leaves also. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Ground to Ground website
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| The bottom of a bag of chicken feed got wet, so there was moldy feed at the bottom. I dumped the moldy feed into the bin, then shredded the bag and put that in too. I was pretty proud of myself! :-D I will have a lot of dead landscape and garden waste for the compost soon, we had a very hard freeze and a lot died. I think my 8 foot willow acacia may have gone to tree heaven. :-( --Maureen |
Can I put THIS in my compost pile ???
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| I have several used Little Hotties Hand Warmers. Please, no lecture on 'going green', wearing gloves or using a hot water bottle. I care for dying patients and the importance of warm hands when touching someone is crucial. Carrying one of these in my pocket for a quick hand warm up has worked well. The ingredients in one small hand warmer is iron powder, water, salt, activated charcoal and vermiculite. As most of the ingredients would be safe, I wondered primarily about the iron powder and that little bit of salt and if they would be safe additions for compost. |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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Shredded kitchen scraps from using a juicer
Leaves
Coffee grounds, filters, and tea bags
Leftovers from work fridge
Egg shells
Corn cobs
Shredded office paper
Rain water |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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Sweet potato, squash, carrot, onion, garlic, broccoli trimmings
Orange & grapefruit peels
Paper towels and a cat furball
Tea bags
Egg shells
Sauerkraut juice
Pre-rinse water of dishes going in the dish washer - figured compost could use more moisture I now have a freezer full of bread crusts - what to do, what to do?!!! |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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soggy pumpkin rescued from neighbors trash
potato peelings
napkins and paper towels
ucg
peanut shells |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| A huge amount of rejected alpaca fiber that was left over when I combed out some fleeces in preparation for spinning. |
Here is a link that might be useful: what to do with unprocessed alpaca fiber
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| I was wondering, can you felt fibers that aren't appropriate for spinning? I've just started felting and have been scavenging old wool clothing from the second hand store. I'm not felting anything big, just small decorative pins and things... |
Gannie, I asked your question on another forum...
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| & it seems like the only uncertainty is the salt, especially since it's in the form of potassium chloride, used in chemical fertilizers. Here's one response: "I don't think the iron powder would be a problem. Considering that my husband ingests 3 iron pills every day and I am a believer in if we can eat it we can compost it. Of course we can eat salt, but high concentrations can be bad for people and for soil.
So, the salt, could be a problem, if she is composting them in multitudes." |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| I fed my pile a three pound coffee can full of UCG and banana peels. My grandson came home from fishing with four fish. After cutting off the filets, the carcasses went into a hole deep into the center of the pile. Then they got covered with a bunch of shredded oak leaves. I finished by topping off the pile with the decomposed leaves and hay that my potatoes grew in....even found a couple of small potatoes that survived through the winter. My seedlings can hardly wait to get their roots in the soil I add the finished compost to. |
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| JoePyeWeed -- I'm sure you could felt this fiber, but it will be more likely to be something I'll use if it becomes compost. if I save it for someday learning to felt, I'll just clutter up my life. |
Here is a link that might be useful: felting alpaca fleece
RE: February 2011 What Have You Fed Your Compost Pile Today?
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| Send an email to http://www.warmers.com/ about composting hand warmers and here's the reply I got! Greetings!
The contents inside each Warmer packet are natural ingredients and non-toxic. They can be put in a compost pile, however, the fabric packet & plastic package should be thrown away.
Thanks,
Dan Tkachuk |
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