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October 22, 2005

Saturday Garden Blogging: Composting edition

I finally broke down last Spring and bought a composter. And then I let the damn thing sit there all Spring and Summer instead of putting it together and composting.

I've been out most all day doing garden clean up. We had a windstorm here at the front end of this week and it made a hella mess.

My pole beans were up on a trellis in a raised bed. The wind blew the whole thing over and the trellis collasped into a heap into the next bed over. I got part of it cleaned up yesterday but did the bulk of it this morning. And once I get started, I can't stop. I started moving from bed to bed..pulling out the dead plants and cleaning out leaves and debris.

Before I knew it, my entire yard waste can was crammed full. Yard waste pickup isn't for another week and a half and I still have to try and mow the grass (ok, my son does the mowing. I live vicariously through him). So I decided to put the composter together.

Basically, I have a big ass Darth Vader mask in my backyard on the ground near the end of my deck. I opened up the top, dumped in the dead marigolds, tomato plants, leaves, etc..leaving my yard waste container still about 2/3 full. But at least I'm composting now.

By the way if anyone has any good composting tips, lay 'em on me.

Posted by Carla at October 22, 2005 02:50 PM