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I had my FIRST dumping of kitchen compost today!!! So happy. 😂

I used a 5 gallon bucket to transfer the small crock's 'goodies' with a bunch of wet and dry leaves from the winter.  I didn't rake when the leaves fell because the bees need them.

And we all know how I feel about saving the bees. 💬

My bounty included: banana peels, potato peels, egg shells, coffee grounds w/filters; tomatoes, trimmed green bean peels, apple peels and a host of other good shit.

Now, I'm trying to figure out who to add this to a corner of my garden so: I won't have to make trips back & forth; and how to NOT attract critters.

I guess when I put it out there, I'll just turn it all over and let it marinate into the ground.

And we all know how things get when they marinate. I want it to be rich and wormy.

Ewwww...., but yay. 💥

Until soon!!!!

Moo Poo!

A co-worker told me about this stuff when we were doing some 'farm talk.' (lol) He swears by this stuff. I don't know if I'll indulge or not.

But for now, I just like saying it!!! (hhhaa!!)


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Hot! Hot! Hot!

"Solo" (other 1/2 of Romeo). Looks like he's smiling!

Sorry folks - don't wanna gross you out, but this is some of my beautiful compost. Good ole spinach, lettuce, onions & skins. Good stuff :-)

The smell of the rosemary while putting this in the ground was completely intoxicating. Between that & the wild peppermint that's growing, I was nearly high on herbs!

Welcome back, friends!

Man, oh man!! As in true Ohio fashion, the temps went from the 60's right to the 90's!!! This Memorial Day weekend was scorching w/incredible amounts of humidity. It was brutal, but so good to be outside in the dirt.

Got everything into the ground. We did end up renting a tiller and I'm so glad we did. It gave the extra edge needed that my son & I could've never gotten done. The soil is super good back there, rich with huge worms (a good sign), and was so soft, I sank into it as I planted. While we had the tiller (four hour rental), we tilled the front flower bed also. Last year, I planted moon plant (Gabriel's Trumpet) that took over the entire front of my house!!! They're hard to get rid of, so I thought if we tilled, we could start over & control what comes up & get rid of what we don't. It's beautiful, but it needs room. Lots of it.

So for now - we have: tomatoes, sweet yellow peppers, rosemary, cabbage, watermelons, sunflowers (which have grown as long my fingers already - I just planted seeds not 2 weeks ago), & zucchini. And I still have a lot more room left.

Sounds like a good reason to go back to the nursery :-)

Yay, compost!!!

Welcome back! :-)

Back in the winter when the empty lot behind me came to be & I thought of the garden, I immediately started making compost. Yes, it's a nasty bunch of stuff, but the soil & worms love it so much & it makes your garden happy.

When growing up, my parents had a HUGE garden that we all had to work in. They always had collard greens, green beans, squash, cushaw squash, peppers of every kind; and we had to bury everything rotten in the ground; fish heads - everything. we would dig a hole at a corner of the garden, dump in the yuck & cover it.

I started it in a gigantic Ziploc bag. In went all coffee grounds, potato peelings, egg shells, onion skins, celery clippings, green pepper clippings - only 'natural' things - no 'food.' Then I would turn it about every week, so that everything could get mixed in all good & yucky.

In lieu of another Ziploc, I'm thinking this would be idea. Isn't it cute? I mean as far as kitchen composters go.


or this:

Much more pleasing on the eye, no? This time, I'm gonna make sure I add in grass clippings, etc. from the yard to make it extra 'good.' :-)



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