Spring is so slow in coming this year, but of course it’s coming.
We’ve had very few days where the temps were high enough to spend some time outside, some real time outside, but they’re coming. Those days.
It makes me REALLY appreciate outside.
Today is Earth Day and I love that there’s a day for that, you know? Because we take it for granted, that the trees and the hikes will be there when we’re able to use them. And what would we do without all of it? The grass and lakes and wildlife and all the growth and gardening and replenishing.
These are enormous gifts to us. Let’s take care of them.
Happy Earth Day, friends.
P.S. We need a compost bin over here – please advise. Do you have one? Did you make your own? Did you buy one? Just checking. (Thank you!)
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We have a compost bin that we made out of lumber. It’s basically a big rectangle, with just earth at the bottom. It has a separating piece in the middle, so it’s like two in one (one for throwing food scraps and when it gets full, start on the other so that one can break down and you can use the compost in your garden). Good luck, it’s such a great thing. Less trash and less stinky.
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Do you have any spare upright plastic garbage bins? Those work fine. You can fill them with your yard and kitchen waste and then, instead of turning it with a shovel or pitchfork, you can bungee the cover closed and flip it over and over. When Griffin was little, he loved that job. It was kind of fun. A simple 2-gallon bucket under your sink can collect kitchen waste. To keep it from smelling, just empty it regularly and rinse it out. The only kitchen waste you can’t compost is meat and bones; everything else is good to go- coffee grounds, tea bags, all vegetable waste, eggshells (rinse them first) nut shells (we kind of have a salted in the shell peanut obsession) old bread……
I have a garden plot, and I dump all my kitchen waste right onto it. I love that I get volunteer plants from seeds that I put in there. Then grass clippings go on for mulch, and in the fall we cover it with leaves. Everything just goes back to the earth. The soil is amazing, so pure and organic. You ought to see the worms.
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We have a compost bin that we bought at Sam’s Club two summers ago. It has little doors on each side (on the bottom) so you can shovel out the dirt when it’s ready – and you can lock the lid so creatures (in our case, bears) don’t have a field day with your food scraps. Adding leaves and sticks to it every so often will help prevent it from getting smelly. Our amount of trash decreased significantly, and my garden plants that use the compost dirt grow a LOT faster and bigger. I’m really glad we started ours!!
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I don’t know anything about compost. I just wanted to tell you that your sweet boys are oh, so very lovely.
Hi YOU! I’m not confused, because of that lovely picture of you :)
Thank you, all of you, for your help. GOOD info, my friends. I thought this was going to be totally complicated for some reason, but it appears it is not. :)
We just built a simple square one out of lumber in an out of the way spot in our yard. I keep a ceramic jar under the kitchen sink and throw my scraps in there then transfer it to the compost. Very easy.
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We made one and we used the plans given on the Lowes project page. We love it. We live in MN. Let me know if you want more info!
We had the benefit of a massive hole left when the previous owners had taken down a very large and very ailing tree. We keep it covered with a lattice in doing our part to prevent the compost from becoming a rat’s buffet. Our scraps go into a coffee canister under the sink which we empty into the big ole compost pile. Pitchfork. Done.
I love Kate’s idea, though. That sounds totally easy-peasy.
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We compost with earth worms! Super convenient, because you can keep them inside the house. ZERO smell, if you can believe it…just the little whiff of earthiness when you open the container. The start-up is a little more complicated, mostly to do with making the container you keep them in, but just do your research and once you get started, it’s a easy-peasy. Very little maintenance – NO stirring required! The super-dirt they turn out is supposedly magic for your garden. This is will be our first year using it, so I can’t say from personal experience…but I can say that they chow down those scraps in much less time than regular composting would take.
The toughest part for me is the gross factor of having a container of worms inside my house. Ugh.
Okay, sales pitch over. It IS cool to be able to throw around a word like “vermiculture” though.
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Ignore that “a” before easy-peasy. I don’t have any kind of weird accent…I promise.
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Also, “is will”? Shoot, I need to proofread more often.
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I had an old plastic garbage bin. I cut out the bottom and then loaded it with a mix of dry leaves and green grass clippings and food scraps. Every now and then i would flip it and mix it around. It worked pretty well!
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I don’t know much about compost. I’d like to start.
I do know those sure are cute pictures of your boys.
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