Photos have captions, but this year I’m trying to add a lot more garden “waste” in the compost, including weeds and all the soil that gets entrained in the roots.
Hopefully I’ll get enough compost to top up the beds in the fall.
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i don’t pluck weeds from my flower pots on the balcony, because i want the environment for the flowers natural. the reason why i mention this is: you have to pluck trees while they are small saplings. they grow very strong roots. left unattended, they become very hard to remove and can even destroy flower pots. they are hard to spot sometimes. i had an oak in a pot and the first weeks it looked like a green mushroom with only two dark green shiny round leaves; nothing like an oak. when it grew the first actual oak leaves, the roots were already 30cm across the pot under various other flowers.
Damn, that’s a fast growing tree!
i suppose the stuff in the acorns gives them a head start
My mom used to collect the weeds and collect them in a barrel of water then use it as fertilizer, I suppose it is a kind of wet compost
Yes! You can ferment the weeds. I tried that once and forgot about it and it was quite a disaster with the built up gas. Maybe I’ll try again and put it somewhere I actually see it 😔
How do you like to compost? It’s one of a billion things I keep meaning to find a sensible way to do.
Sensible is not a word I would apply. I have two “bays” (like a box with no top and no front) with piles of stuff.
I put kitchen scraps on it and bury the kitchen scraps with yard waste.
I don’t have the right ratio and it doesn’t really get hot. But it breaks down for sure. My partner is the one who puts the most thought into the compost and I’m not sure he’s really started to execute his vision.
Well thank you for the information either way, I appreciate it.
My super-secret, patented, scientifically-rigorous compost procedure:
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Throw stuff in a pile
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(there is no step 2)
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