Buried this in the lasagna bed that I wasn't pleased with earlier but it's amazing how loose the soil is for about 12" deep. I had thot this bed was a failure but guess not. I covered it with fresh grass clippings in an attempt to disguise the smell of compost so the bear isn't attracted. He hasn't been back to my knowledge. This bed should be pretty good by next spring and I may plant garlic there.

Curt

I have way too much weeds to fit in the compost section this year because I was ill for two months --- you can imagine what happened to the garden, aaaarrrrrrgh.

However, I just keep grimly pulling them and chopping them and adding them to the pile, throwing them up as far to the back as possible, and then it rains and the level sinks down again. But I need that middle section (with chicken manure in it now) as an auxilliary compost section.

oldish homemade soup with lots of vegetables & spices & very little salt

paper bags from what-a-burger (how do those things pile up in the car like that?)

roots that got separated from their plants in flower pots
(& how does *that* happen?)

Then I resowed the bed with parsley, put on wire fencing cat deflectors and watered in. Parsley is a cool weather veg -- I could get lucky.

better look for sumpn to throw in that pile before your "compost wacko" status is in question!

I've added:

shavings from several eye pencils.
torn-up newspaper from office & home
paper towels & Kleenex
tea/teabags/coffee grounds/filters/cold coffee
popcorn that refused to pop
orange juice (once it gets a little warm, you just can't get it cold enough again)
banana peels/grapefruit rinds/apple cores
ancient rice krispies

Over the weekend mine got

UCG
remains from the pole beans
corn husks / cobs (which the dog promptly pulled out and ate)
grass clippings that have been drying out for a month
experimental tomato soup (can you guess the experiment failed?)
watermelon rinds (which the dog also pulled out and ate)
lodge pole pine shavings/saw dust
shredded paper
paper plates and assorted cardboard boxes torn to pieces

I got a shopping cart of bread for $2. The whole grain goes into dog food, the white and rye bread goes into the compost.

Lloyd

Maybe you should ask the guy with the hamsters for the shredded paper after the hamsters are done with it.

Verse from those years my mother taught me:

Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without.

I keep thinking with what you all are putting in compost I could feed all my hens and never buy chicken feed!!

My family does eat the fruit and veggies I grow with the compost. So I figure that whatever goes into the compost is getting good use.

Nothing goes into the compost if there is a better use for it.

Curt :(

"I keep thinking with what you all are putting in compost I could feed all my hens and never buy chicken feed!!"

I've found lots of stuff in super market dumpsters. You might try that.
..

(Is there no end to iris leaves?
or am I just reaping the harvest of neglecting my irises for the past 2 or 3 or 100 years?)

old potting soil

shredded & torn-up paper

coffee/grounds/filters

tea/teabags

I even had some carbonated soft drinks this time;
a friend gave me something that I thought was Cherry Coke, turned out to be cherry soda.

tasted like cough syrup to me, but the microbes probably won't care.

(shuffling my feet & blushing bashfully)

Aw, shucks, you're just a'sayin' that!

Good thing I didn't post the other day as Annpat would be upset hearing what I had to compost. Sorry AP but I wish you'd advise us where to dispose of the unmentionable item - I always feel so guilty and think of you when I'm throwing *it* in the compost but what else would I do with *it*?

That's all I ask. That I can be your moral compass.
Lucky, do you have one of those vacuum sealing contraptions meant for freezing food? I have chickens, but here's what I would do if I were you. After vacuum sealing *it*, you should carefully duct tape the seams, taking care to push out any air bubbles that might form under the tape. (Moisture could enter via those bubbles later and compromise the seam.) I would then take one of those plastic bags that the grocery store provides in the produce department and place the package containing *it* inside. Knot the top of the bag and secure with duct tape. If you have lots of plastic bags (and who doesn't?), you could repeat this step as many times as make you comfortable. After you're done, put the package containing *it* into your usual trash bag and send it to the landfill.
Once you're used to doing it, like everything else, it will become second nature to you and not take that much time.
And you're going to feel so much better about yourself. I sense that you've been feeling bad about yourself lately and your slovenly ways.