The other day I pulled a bunch of petunias that were still blooming and piled well rotted manure on top of them right in the perennial beds. New experiment for this lazy gardener, hope they decompose quickly once it warms up in the spring. Had earlier piled a bunch of dried old weed-whacked plant material from the perennial beds and the horses ate most of it! Oh well, I'll get that material after it's passed thru them and it'll be a nutritious addition to my garden.

After I cooked about 30 eggs (I wanted a few extra for myself), I started to try to peel the eggs and it was going terribly. My technique failed me and the shell and membrane were pulling bits of egg away as I peeled and the result was a slow-going mess.

So I went back to the store and purchased two more 18 packs. It is a good thing that eggs are cheap! I cooked another 24 eggs and although the result was a bit better, it was still kind of terrible. But I eventually got my deviled eggs made (mash the yolks with salt, pepper and bleu cheese dressing, top with a green olive) and now I have many many many eggs shells to add to my pile. Plus a lot of calcium-rich cooking water!

As I understand it (my sis used to have an egg farm, 30K chickens & I heard it from her) the fresher the egg the harder it is to peel. You might try buying your eggs a week or so earlier next time you want to have boiled eggs. You could still compost the shells but you would then have more time for turning them into your pile if you don't waste the whole day peeling.

It goes by what it is cut as so say with grass clipping even if they sit for 1, 2, 3, weeks it will still be a green, even if it starts to turn brown it will aways be a green. so bread im thinking brown when weat is cut it is brown I think Im in CA not a lot of wheat out here lol.

@rmontcal re: Eggs

Good trick it to boil them and once there done have a bowl with lots of ice and half filled with water lower the eggs in to the icy water and let them sit for 7 mins and then take them out pat try them put in fridge for and hour or two and they peal so easy. Start at the bottom where the air pocket in and tap it lightly all the way to the top and run your thumb or finger under the shell and membrane(light paper thing) and it will peal off like a button up shirt.

I mixed this x2 for my 2 worm farms: 2 egg shells, 1oz of beach sand, 8oz of 3 week old grass (thats turned weekly) 5.7oz of carrot matter's from my juicer and 5oz of moldy coffee grounds. (Made my hands smell from the old dieing grass cliping but I tested it with a few worms to make sure they would like freak out and they loved it they were digging all through it. Any one have an idea about using gloves other then latex something more earth friendly?

Would you like a little hummus in your humus?!

LOL! Good one Tracy!

Today I added some moldy bread and dog poo. Don't tell anyone about the dog poo. Don't tell Miss p about the bread.

I also started a "hugelkultur" bed - mounding a bunch of rotted firewood that I was given and burying it in soil, finished compost, grass clippings, with just a hint of lime. I am a bit skeptical of any chance of success after reading dozens of excited online accounts of hugelkultur bed construction - most from several years ago - without any follow-up.

Good luck out there!

Left the lid off the earth machine so the rain will moisten it.