Wind scattered my leaf pile
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My first intentional compost pile
Comments (16)A few days in I felt the pile through the tarp on top, I could feel some good heat. The top of the tarp has cooled down since. Because of daylight saving time I was able to have light to turn the pile in the morning today. It's been 9 days since the pile was built. I used a flat-tined fork to do most of the work. it was quite smelly at times. There was no wind at all so the fumes wafted into my face. Not good, once the smell was intense enough that I actually could taste the fermenting horse poo. Yuk. The pile is looking quite nice. The interior was very hot, I could feel it radiating. It steamed nicely. While turning it my less-than-enthusiastic son sprayed the pile with water and occasionally broke up the chunks. A few years ago I adjusted the plumbing so I could have hot water outside, this was for the kids to play in the sprinkler on slightly cooler days. Didn't think it would be so handy for the compost. This is the original pile with the wire removed. It had sagged about 3 inches within the enclosure over 9 days. You can see the steam. You can also see the lack of wind. I wish there was a little, the smell hurt. On Halloween I added a large amount of pumpkin guts with seeds. These seeds sprouted. Pretty cool! They are now deep in the pile so they will die. I guess these seeds are now officially called "malted pumpkin seeds". Anyone make whiskey out of these ever? Here is after turning. The pile is a lot smaller, probably 20% loss....See MoreI'm itching to start my pile but not enough greens
Comments (12)I'm so glad that I am not the only person that has this problem. I hate to go ask for coffee grounds as I don't buy from them. Guess I'm going to have to get over my bashfulness and go for it. And pee in the compost. I am still puzzled about the amount of N you need....See MoreHeavy wind and curling leaves.
Comments (6)I know someone who has an Oldhamii that has only been in the ground for a few months. It seems to have some leaf curling as the result of cold winds. The bamboo has been healthy other than the cold damage it has sustained so far. Therefore it seems that the root system takes a somewhat substantial amount of time to develop to the point to counter-act this. I/We have some moso seedlings that have very severe leaf curling/shriveling problems. One of them seems to be somewhat healthy though....See MoreAll you spirited Seed Scatterers...
Comments (44)mmqchdygg, I am recently disabled. My spine is broken at three places (not repairable by surgery due to a prior surgery gone bad) and I have numerous other nerve disturbances and degenerative processes going on in my body because of that. I can no longer stand, or walk very well, or for very long. Getting down on my hands and knees and bending over is completely out of the question. Kinda hard to garden if one can't do any of those things, wouldn't you say? My gardening friends here, are just trying to help me find ways to continue doing what I love to do. I would consider the planting pole a "tool" not a gadget and I think it would be great tool for anyone who suffers from back pain if they bend over too much or have bad knees or trouble getting off the ground etc. It works readily from a standing or sitting position. You just have to make it to the proper length that will work for you. Yesterday, equipped with my new planting pole, so beautifully created by you wonderful Cottage Gardeners, I was able to plant more than 300 Hollyhock seeds. There is a little trick to using it, I found. It took me a bit to figure it out though. Finally I realized that if you stick the attached stick in the ground at an angle vs straight down, with the pole lying directly above the stick, rather than pulling the wooden stick completely up and out of the hole and then fiddling to line the pole back up over the hole, you can instead pull the stick partially out of the hole (because it went in at an angle). Automatically the pole is lined up over the hole. You can now drop your seed down the pole and it acts like a chute sending the seed straight into the hole. One warning, don't push the stick into the earth so far that you plug the pole with dirt! It is a little bit tricky to get it up in the air so you can clean out the hole without spilling all your seed out of the yogurt cup that is up at the top by your funnel, LOL! Otherwise...You are in bussiness!! With many many thanks to all of you, I'm gardening again! I can't tell you what it means to me. MeMo...See Moredaninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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