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| starting the month off right, I've fed the little critters:
coffee grounds & filters
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Follow-Up Postings:
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| Very old and nasty rice UCG veggie peels shredded office paper DGF brought me a posy of wildflowers from her walk, sparkling blooms after the rain. "Look at the pretty pink one, it's my favorite. I brought it with roots so you can put in in the garden!" Had to tell her it's bindweed, and that it can't even go on the pile, it must be tossed far, far, FAR away, but the rest are just lovely, sweetie. |
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- Posted by tn_gardening (My Page) on Thu, May 5, 11 at 14:58
| Last night i added a few ounces of filtered beer :) |
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| 2 cases of spoil mushrooms, seedless weed & grass matter, Dry broom sage/grass, burlap bags too rotten to be mulch. Coffee waste,tea waste,egg shells.wood tender& peels. tn do they have AA for compost piles?:-) |
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- Posted by lisascenic (My Page) on Sat, May 7, 11 at 2:03
| I spent hours weeding today! |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sat, May 7, 11 at 11:50
| do they have AA for compost piles? nah. To get "better", you have to *want* to get "better". so they tried it, but nobody signed up. I fed my compost pile: eggshells |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Wed, May 11, 11 at 12:22
| Where's everbody at????? I can tell it's officially spring/summer here by what goes in the compost: & the usual, classic ingredients that go in regardless of season: What have you fed *your* compost today???
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- Posted by darth_weeder z7 NY (My Page) on Wed, May 11, 11 at 13:13
| a retired squirrel, dead pizza bones, lawn clippings, egg shells, and coffee grounds |
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| Cut down the nasty Scotch Broom before it blooms. A couple really aged bananas, egg shells, coffee grounds, weekly advertising flyers |
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- Posted by cindy-eatonton 7b/8a mid-GA (My Page) on Fri, May 13, 11 at 15:05
| Mashed up clam shells, shrimp shells, paper towels, kleenex, pulled weeds, veggie scraps, and really creepy crawly looking leftover spaghetti sauce that was hiding behind the pickles in the fridge... :-) |
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- Posted by berryman135678 (My Page) on Fri, May 13, 11 at 21:32
| I peed on mine |
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- Posted by piedmontnc 7b-8 (My Page) on Sun, May 15, 11 at 17:08
| Some grass clippings, and a 5 gallon bucket of diluted urine to a big ol' pile of oak leaves. |
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| LOL I peed on mine also! Actually I collected in a bucket and poured it on - you guys have such an advantage! I have a relatively new compost pile which is about 6'x6'x4' tall and I'm burying all my kitchen scraps in it still. Saw a bit of steam one morning. Eventually I'll have to turn it but I've started another pile nearby with the garden trimmings and weeds and will turn it over on to that after awhile. So my usual daily additions are fruit and veggie trimmings, eggshells, tea bags, paper towels - nothing too exotic but it all adds up at a gallon a day. |
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| I was too lazy to swim down to the compost yard after the latest 5 cm of rain, so merely separated some layers of sheet compost in the front gardens and fed: rusty steel wool pads |
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- Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on Tue, May 17, 11 at 18:33
| Oak flowers, some oak flowers and more oak flowers. |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Fri, May 20, 11 at 17:07
| latest additions to the microherd's salad bar: canned pumpkin from a very rusty can |
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| half a yard of grass clippings 3 trash bags of shredded paper and paper board boxes 5 banana peels contents of my workshop shop vac used paper towels clipped leaves from burning bush pruning third of a yard of semi composted leaves from last fall one and one half inches of dirty rain (lots of dust in the air from farmers planting corn and soybeans nearby) Bucket full of daffodil dead-heads |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sat, May 21, 11 at 13:23
| You still have daffodils????? Throw some autumn leaves on me; I'm green with envy! |
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| lead paint chips my idiot neighbor shot off his foundation with a pressure hose... sigh |
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| .. The ceremonial peach pit from the finished pile to the new one. .. |
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| Weeds, quackgrass, extra plants, as well as the garden soil attached. I've made a new pile with this stuff and will eventually tarp to kill the grass and dandelions. Have decided not to turn my good compost pile on top of these noxious weeds as it will be finished soon and the weeds will take longer. In my regular compost pile I buried the same ol', same ol' kitchen scraps, plus a very large dried dead toad I found in the garden, plus the vacuum bag full of dust, cat and dog hair, and who knows what GD may have left laying around - probably find some miniscule plastic Barbie accessory in my finished compost eventually. |
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| In the last couple of days I have fed the heap.... A two gallon bag of coffee grounds. |
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- Posted by cal_dreamer z9 SoCal (My Page) on Sun, May 22, 11 at 19:52
| Cleaned out the freezer: quart of frozen salsa freezer burned green beans ice covered pineapple rotting limes from the yard assorted weeds & water! |
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- Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on Tue, May 24, 11 at 11:01
| Oak flowers. (I think its going to be a big acorn year.) |
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| Cooked Wheat berries so old and fuzzy it was a garden in itself the usual peelings, scraps and UCG Shredded office paper hidden bottle of nettle tea gone bad Summer's here to stay. |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sat, May 28, 11 at 18:03
| torn-up office paper, newspaper, & junk mail coffee grounds & filters used tea bags bits of strawberries leftover potatoes & starchy water weeds (I have no weeds my own self of course, I had to import them from a friend's garden!) |
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