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| It's a little early in the day as yet, but so far the hungry microherd has gotten coffee grounds & filter, dog hair, pencil shavings, a couple of eggshells, & a boatload of nice green weeds.
& what have you fed *your* compost today??? |
Follow-Up Postings:
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| live oak leaves that had collected in the gutter kitchen scraps weeds water from the hose...it's been real dry here lately |
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- Posted by Shane_Genziuk (My Page) on Sat, Apr 2, 11 at 21:50
| The boys and I took a little walk to the compost pile today... :) |
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- Posted by compogardenermn 4- Twin Cities MN (My Page) on Sat, Apr 2, 11 at 21:56
| Typical food scraps Vacuum contents Spring lawn rakings Nothing all that exciting yet- will be borrowing a chipper soon to chip up x-mas tree and other woody material as well as sunflower stalks from last fall, etc |
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- Posted by cal_dreamer z9 SoCal (My Page) on Sat, Apr 2, 11 at 23:47
| grass clippings from the front yard, micro-shredded 2004 tax records, 15 meyer lemons that had been on the tree too long, 6 or 8 bearrs' limes, coffee grounds & a handful of leaves for garnish! |
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| Three grocery bags of shredded papers & tissues app. 3 gallons of chopped up dried leaves, stems, twigs, other dead stuff from the garden contents of the compost bucket (coffee grounds, apple cores, pear cores, etc. etc.) app. 1 gallon, maybe a less, of barren strawberry & garlic mustard a whole bunch of spent malt from a local brewery a piece of chicken |
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| A whole car trunk full of paper lunch sacks, each filled with dried up vegetation samples, the lot coming from a range assessment done by the consulting firm my DD was doing data entry for. I will confess to a puff of fatherly pride when graduated-from-college-no-longer-pig-tailed-and-now-higher-than-4-foot -tall DD brought that home to the pile. |
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- Posted by shermthewerm (My Page) on Tue, Apr 5, 11 at 0:08
| Scrapings from the chicken coop's poop board, veggie scraps (on the menu tonight: cauliflower & potato peels), coffee grounds & filter, tea bags, a bag of grass clippings, a bushel of shredded bills/med. EOB's/credit card statements, dryer lint...the usual... |
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| UCG& filters, Letuce roots from kitchen garden, 5 gal. of rabbit poo from my recyclers, a few scraps that were too nasty for the bunnies Curt |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Tue, Apr 5, 11 at 17:22
| "graduated-from-college-no-longer-pig-tailed-and-now-higher-than-4-foo
t-tall DD brought that home to the pile." Well, now, see, ya brung her up right! Today I added kitchen scraps, coffee grounds & filters, couple of teabags, shredded/torn-up junk mail, a cardboard box full of cardboard boxes (get to your drugstore, dollar store, grocery store on the day they receive their shipments & set it out on the shelves!). |
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- Posted by heirloomjunkie 5a (My Page) on Wed, Apr 6, 11 at 10:40
| A whole bunch of coffee grounds, newspapers (I work for the local paper, although I don't like to put too much of the colored stuff in), potato peelings, paper towels, leaves from the fall, etc. My boyfriend has a huge pile of branches in his back yard near the fence. I asked him what they were doing there, and he informed me that it was going to compost. [Yeah, in about 10 years. :)] Guess I have some teaching to do... Kim |
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| contents of the kitchen compost bucket whole bunch of the usual weed: barren strawberry grass + clover, with the soil, that had grown over stepping stones some really old cardboard left lying in a garden bed all winter contents of a can of cat food contents of a jar of Nutella someone gave me -- whoo boy that stuff has a revolting smell, not to mention a texture like glue a grocery bag full of shredded paper, dryer lint, etc I still have lots of spent malt from the local brew pub + bags of coffee grounds from a local Starbucks. Gonna add that stuff in stages, with lots of browns. As it is, the newest pile is steaming after just 2 days! I am in heaven. |
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- Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 14:56
| Just the usual kitchen scraps and shredded junk mail. |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sun, Apr 10, 11 at 13:09
| cardboard with a bonus of cat spray! Sunday newspaper inserts, junk mail, & office paper, torn up & wetted down to keep it from blowing away coffee grounds/filters tea bags |
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| a headless vole |
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| Regular kitchen scraps Shredded paper from office as browns old nettle tea old plants that didn't make it through to Spring Am only adding to the second pile, as the first has 6-7 potato volunteers and I'd like to what happens to them. Both piles are unfinished and waiting for two weeks (for my garden elves - permaculture course members who keep meeting on our own 'cause we like each other. Every month we show up at someone's house and install, plant, and do garden elf things. End of this month is my turn!) Hopefully I will be ready, with plantable seedlings, more than half-ready compost or, if too unfinished, we'll dig it in alongside the beds. |
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- Posted by heirloomjunkie 5a (My Page) on Wed, Apr 13, 11 at 10:29
| Tea bags, cucumber peelings, and paper towels. I acutally had steam coming from it for the first time this year! :D Sylvia, that's hilarious. Nobody but composters would be so excited about a urine covered piece of cardboard. And Batya, great idea about the hair. What's the weather like there right now?? Kim |
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| Tea bags, shredded oak leaves chopped up carrots orange peels banana peels old lettuce lint from the dryer some shredded newspaper |
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| Contents of shop vac (mostly dog and cat hair, dirt and pine needles) contents of compost tumbler orange and banana peels used napkins and paper towels ripped up food boxes..taco kit, jello, and brownie mix |
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- Posted by humboldt101 7b (My Page) on Wed, Apr 13, 11 at 23:50
| Urine and humanure. |
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- Posted by heirloomjunkie 5a (My Page) on Fri, Apr 15, 11 at 15:37
| Furry strawberries and paper towels. Wanted to throw in a dead mouse from the neighbors, but got to thinking about what it ingested, and decided against it. Kim |
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- Posted by AlaskaChris 3b (My Page) on Sat, Apr 16, 11 at 6:32
| Several large garbage bags full of used straw bedding from a horse barn, layered with partially composted leaves and garden cleanup waste from last fall, veggie peelings, egg shells, and coffee grounds. I more than doubled the size of my modest pile today. I'm hoping the new additions will getting cooking again after our cold winter. |
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| Alfalfa! Listened to a podcast interview of Helen Atthowe and she and the interviewer, Paul, said alfalfa has a really awesome ratio of what compost needs. Question: My mom told me that banana peels were bad for the compost because they naturally repel bugs from breaking them down. True? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Compost Podcast (also talks about going
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- Posted by tommysmommy Colorado (My Page) on Sun, Apr 17, 11 at 0:00
| Oh, I hope not, I threw that in today. |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 19:04
| I can't imagine banana peels *not* breaking down; I put 'em under roses (roses like potassium just like we do!), & they've turned brown & shriveled to the point of invisibility within a day or so. Today's pickings are slim; |
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- Posted by piranhafem (My Page) on Wed, Apr 20, 11 at 1:44
| New to my compost today were some spent iris blossoms I deadheaded, and most of a bag of Tapatio Fritos that were too disgusting to eat. I bought 3 Silkie chicks at the feed store yesterday, and all the poopy papers from their brooder will be going into the compost and/or the worm bin. Yay! Banana peels break down just fine in my compost. We eat a lot of them here and the peels disappear very quickly in the bin. --Maureen |
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| A whole bunch of spent malt from a brewery A whole big plastic bag full of coffee grounds + filters from a local Starbucks Contents of the kitchen bucket Contents of a vacuum bag Dryer lint Large paper bag of shredded paper + tissues and the like About 5 gallons of chopped up dead stuff from the garden A shrew that semi-feral kitty left me this a.m. She apparently loves me and is now showing it by leaving presents for me on the patio. Sigh |
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- Posted by soilbuilder none (My Page) on Thu, Apr 21, 11 at 23:33
| oh and if you have bunnies they may attack your flowers from time to time BUt bunnie poopies are awesome tomatoe food SUPER fertilizer!!!! |
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| egg shell,coffee & tea grounds, fruit peelings,leaves,grass clippings,weeds,2 cases of sliced Mushrooms from a local pizza place. |
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| Egg shells, coffee grounds, vegetable peelings, banana peels, lettuce, weeds, cardboard egg carton, strawberries, paper towels, kaiser rolls. |
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- Posted by gingersnap 5 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 24, 11 at 22:57
| Today rotten potatoes and onions, coffee grounds and filters and urine. Yesterday lots of grounds, apples, rotten carrots and urine. All watered with nutrient water from big pot by back steps. Yummy. Oh, and thank you for the heads up about hair and dryer lint. That will be next. |
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| Yesterday we were driving by a local market and I noticed five large transparant bags of something vegetative sitting beside a garbage can. Stop the motorcycle! Screech!!! Went closer and they were pure GUAVA PEELINGS. Oh yeah!!! I put one big bag in the front basket of the motorcycle and laid another one between my legs. The compost received the guava peels this morning after I gathered some dry leaves for layering. -Paul |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Mon, Apr 25, 11 at 17:24
| You might be a compost wacko... if you carry bags of guava peelings on your motorcycle! I think Paul wins the Compost Wacko prize this month! |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Wed, Apr 27, 11 at 11:07
| A storm on Monday blew rain into the storm cellar... which hadn't been swept out for a very long time. so today's compost feast included what we scraped out of the cellar, a muddy mixture of grass clippings, old dust, & something that smelled like a ripe cow barn. Also, of course, the usual: |
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- Posted by heirloomjunkie 5a (My Page) on Wed, Apr 27, 11 at 11:14
| An old, thick fruit smoothie, raspberry jelly, an onion, carrots, junk mail, tons of coffee grounds, strawberries, napkins, and green pepper waste. When the flooding goes down in the yard, I will mow and add grass clippings. The rain just won't stop! Kim |
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| Yesterday I gathered up magnolia blossoms - filled a ~10 gallon bucket 2 1/2 times. There are easily as many blossoms down on the ground today. Also contents of the kitchen compost bucket and various garden odds and ends -- the usual stuff. |
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| Oh Sylvia, that's... that's... the nicest thing anyone's said to me this week. I'm just touched. I'll try to live up to the nomination. :- ) -Paul |
Here is a link that might be useful: My Blog: Magic Compost
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