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| leftover soil shaken out of a pot I found in someone's curbside trash
torn-up newspaper & sale flyers hulls from Hyacinth Bean seeds |
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- Posted by daylilyfanatic4 Zone 6 SE NY (My Page) on Mon, Nov 1, 10 at 17:01
| Mowed leaves and grass |
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| Four totes of horse manure with shavings, a lot of chili (I had nowhere else to dump it), and I plan on grabbing 4-6 bags of eelgrass/seaweed later. |
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| Mine got an amazing mixture. I was so proud I nearly choked up. grass clippings |
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| lol momstar. I added one tote of horse manure/shavings and 2 huge garbage cans and 4 5gal buckets of used coffee grounds to my 5 compost piles :)!! |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sun, Nov 7, 10 at 17:26
| sweet potato vine cuttings that I rooted at the office & forgot to put into pots & they croaked. wilted salad leftover (sugary) spiced apple cider & the usual |
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| Kitchen compost bucket and leaf litter. I am working on the local municipality to offer a low cost delivery service for manure from a county source. Many gardeners could use it by the truck load but don't have a truck or no time and energy to load it themselves. If the service is offered, I will be a regular customer. |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Fri, Nov 12, 10 at 16:11
| stickery hulls from datura seeds (those things *bite*!) trumpet vine broken 4 o'clock foliage & tubers needles from bald cypress leftover noodles eggshells moldy tomato |
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| gettin ready to put some trout carcasses in the pile |
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| Into the medium tumbler.... 3 gallons of cooked mixed vegetables Lloyd |
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- Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on Sat, Nov 13, 10 at 15:24
| eggshells banana peels stale crackers leaves dried foliage from cleaning up the flower beds along with a few late tomatoes, that had split and molded on the ground the guts from baking pumpkins |
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| Fishing was good so in the trench 2 gallons of fish cleaning scraps one gallon of yucky kitchen waste. In the pile all the rest of the garden plants that did not make it through the frost. A lot of junk mail and other accumulated paper and some of the vegetable/fruit scrap from the kitchen. Curt |
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| I'm no longer burying compost as the ground is getting hard (frozen) and covered with a thin layer of that white stuff - too bad IT'S not compostable! Anyhow, I'm now using my big black cone shaped *thing* to collect goodies. The 3 pots of mini-roses that didn't like my lack of care went in for the first layer and on top of that went 2 buckets of veggie trimmings and other kitchen scraps and a paper towel. |
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- Posted by beermaninpa (My Page) on Sun, Nov 14, 10 at 2:10
| Veggies and Fruits that I over bought and did not eat :-( 23ish bags of leaves from the the neighbors . . . . . . and some pumpkins from my watering hole's Pumpkin carving contest. |
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- Posted by carmen_grower_2007 4/5 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 14, 10 at 15:22
| I let the leaves and grass stay on the ground to feed the soil but we have plenty of other stuff to add daily to compost. A few maybe unusual ones are: Dead voles and moles that the cats and dogs catch and play with until they tire of them. Box-elder bugs. |
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- Posted by scott_fl_z9 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 16, 10 at 14:56
| old rope made out of alpaca hair food scraps banana leaves 6 big bags of oak leaves |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sat, Nov 20, 10 at 13:03
| mushy tomato scrapings from plates from office Thanksgiving luncheon (missed out on the dried-out raw carrots when someone else took them to her horse!) icky cherry soda teabags coffee grounds & filters Kleenex junk mail |
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- Posted by piranhafem (My Page) on Sat, Nov 20, 10 at 21:24
| Hello, I am a compost wacko in training. I've been having a lot of fun getting in touch with my inner 3-year-old, who loves mudpies and earthworms and watching stuff rot. I had some old straw on the ground in a pen where I take my dogs to potty at night, and today I raked up this old pee-soaked straw and put it on my mulch pile. I replaced it with new straw for my dogs to pee on, and am looking forward to slowly adding more to the pile over the years. I also bought a bale of fresh, locally grown alfalfa hay for my chickens. They don't get to free range so it's a good way to give them some protein-rich greens to forage on. Really looking forward to putting the leftover stems, covered in chicken poop, into my pile. :-) --Maureen |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Mon, Nov 22, 10 at 11:08
| Welcome piranhafem! I love to hear stuff like this, where someone gets to use something more than twice! |
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- Posted by squirejohn 4 VT (My Page) on Tue, Nov 23, 10 at 16:31
| A large abandoned ant nest (about 10 gal.) comprised of shredded bark, leaves and grass. |
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- Posted by tiffy_z5_6_can 5/6 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 23, 10 at 17:53
| 50 lbs of rotting bananas 5 gallon bucket of various kitchen waste 4 large Hallowe'en pumpkins 2 buckets of UCGs (5 gallon) 9 bags of shredded leaves, 4 of them mixed with old grass clippings. Actually added these items last Sunday in -2c sunny weather. The pile was hot from it's beginnings a week ago so the additions should warm-up fast. I can only add every now and then - never daily. :O) |
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| Today and for the forseeable future leaves. I don't have a way to shred them I wish I did. But I keep working them and hoping for the best. It's just slower than if I could because the shredding comes with the turning of the pile. Something I should be doing about once a week. Of course, once I finish raking up the leaves I'm to tired to turn the pile. lol It's such a pain getting old. |
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- Posted by oregonwoodsmoke 5 OR Sunset 1A (My Page) on Thu, Nov 25, 10 at 23:15
| Sigh. It got to -8 degrees outside and 16 degrees inside the garage, so the compost got 3 flats of tomatoes, 6 flats of pears, and 10 gallons of apples that got frozen and ruined. Oh, and half a loaf of bread that nobody wanted to eat. |
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| Since I have way too much leaves in my compost pile and not enough green, I purchased some alfalfa nuggets WOW what a difference they made in 36 hrs I was up to 150 degrees. Soak them in water first. Its 48 degrees out this am and the pile is still at 153 degrees. Good Green stuff. |
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- Posted by tiffy_z5_6_can 5/6 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 26, 10 at 10:35
| rfonte649, I've used Alfalfa pellets quite a few time to heat up my piles in the past - still have 2 5gallon buckets full. Not sure where you got yours but try to buy them at a farm supply store where they sell the pellets at a nice low price for a huge bag. :O) |
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| Well today it is some romaine lettuce that went bad and then banana and orange peels. I do love my clemintine oranges. |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sun, Nov 28, 10 at 17:07
| dried-out cookies (forgot I had them-what a waste!) sweet potato peelings "dregs" from the bottoms of several wine bottles plate scrapings from Thanksgiving dinner |
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| More fruit rinds. |
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