ducks4you
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W...HAT?!?!?I compost squirrels mainly.
W...HAT?!?!?I compost squirrels mainly.
Had to tell my wife to quit scaring them off the bird feeders. It makes it harder for me later. She is in that "I can scare them off" phase. Soon the deep resentment will set in and I can make my move. She wants to use a live trap, but our fish and game people disagree, and request put them down. I am saving that tidbit for when she moves to the "Trap them for me" phase so I can skip right to the pellet gun phase.W...HAT?!?!?
Same as flipping a pile but it makes a more complete and faster process involving oxygen. You always have some coming out. The bacteria come as conditions are ripe and the water and oxygen given during the toss really speed things along and the walls help increase the working area. The only people I know that use bins have tractors to flip with. Its really hard to flip a big pile with a pitchfork. I just dig out the center of a single pile and re-pile it manually. The drums that rotate seem like a good idea after pitching a pile over.I just dont understand the three bin process. can someone explain it is very simple terms.
thank you ahead of time.
I just dont understand the three bin process. can someone explain it is very simple terms.
thank you ahead of time.
road kill is good fertilizer if you have the stomach for picking it up and burying it. i don't actively seek it out here, but if it happens on the road near our property i do go out and pick it up and bury it in a garden as i don't want to smell it all summer (or until the crows and other scavengers get it taken care of).
Almost free!? Looks like somebody has laundry to do.
It's wonderful that he was willing to help. I'm not sure how much help I was at his age. Let me phrase that: how much willing help. I came to really dislike the hoe. Try to think of ways to allow him to have ownership. You have already done that and can point out the difference "his" compost is making in the growing garden as the year goes on. He did it and those plants are benefiting because he did .
I have composting kitchen scraps, although no meat and nearly nothing cooked. Most of what is in the compost might be considered kitchen waste since much of it is vegetable debris. I've never noticed any racoon interest but mice are around. The only thing that I have identified as mouse-eaten has been carrots.
Using soil in the compost helps in a number of ways.
Steve
Leaves will also work on that pile and layer it with a layer of dirt like was said above.small amounts of meat won't matter to a big enough compost pile, but they may attract animals to root about. since i compost all the kitchen scraps indoors in the worm farm it doesn't matter and the various soil critters do their explorations and transformations through time to small bones. the larger bones eventually end up in some trench in a garden where they can complete their transformation back to the earth. i don't put fats/dairy in the worm buckets. at least not much above small bits that might be on other things by accident. for one because we don't normally have any waste diary of any kind, it just doesn't happen and for two because we rarely have meat either at home. we now mostly go out a few times a month for that and when cooking we only do that once in a while too so there aren't normally scraps from that around either.