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My compost is so hot...

Posted by piranhafem (My Page) on
Fri, May 27, 11 at 1:41

...it eats peach pits! I was screening compost today on 1/4" hardware cloth wire, and as I was rubbing the compost over the wire, I realized that the roundish lump that was breaking up into punky bits and crumbling through the mesh was a peach pit. A short while later, another one disintegrated. Of course, it has taken about a year and a half of constantly throwing the pits back into the bin, and I had to toss a couple dozen back in... but at least now I know that in 10 years I won't be knee deep in the darn things! I'm a compost goddess, baby! :-)

--Maureen


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I baked a potato...


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maryrecord you did not! I meant really?


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I smelted iron.


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that Pons and Fleischman got excited about cold fusion


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  • Posted by pt03 2b Southern Manitob (My Page) on
    Fri, May 27, 11 at 12:14

...that gliders use the resulting thermals for lift.

;-)

Lloyd


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Al Gore had me arrested for being the main cause of global warming.

and garbwarb, what did it smelt like?


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Well it looked like it was baked and not rotten. I didn't check it out that close. LOL I had forgotten that I tossed it in there. I don't think it necessarily means that my pile was super hot. It was just hot enough for a few days to do the work.


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LOL, I only thought I was a compost goddess. I bow to the true deities of rot!

--Maureen


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okay, I'll bite..

How hot is it? *rimshot*


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