Composting In Winter
There's not a lot going on in my compost bin right now. As you can see here, there's some snow, remains of a big pumpkin and lots of leaves.
Once spring comes though, things should get cooking in a hurry. I can add a ton of coffee grinds at any given moment because I drink a ton of coffee. Then leaves, pumpkins and coffee will turn into black gold just in time to feed my vegetable garden.
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I guess compost decomposition does slow down in the dead of winter, huh? I have a new compost tumbler that is basically a barrel suspended on a frame so it can swivel. When I was out last week, I gave it a whirl and it took off and tumbled down the hill into my fence! What I didn't realize was that it was frozen solid, so when I turned it, the weight of the mass took over and toppled it! That's how I found out that composting stops in the winter! :)
Marc, as long as no one got hurt, I have to say that's the funniest thing I've heard all day! It's a good thing that your fence was there to stop it.
I've been meaning to get a compost tumbler but now I know not to put it at the top of a hill. Good tip, thanks. :)
lol good story marc - although you might not be laughing :)
I tend to like to build my compost inlayers because I feel it lets the worms work better.
I might mix a little if I have a bit of stuborn or woody vegetation that isn't responding so as to get the moisture and warmth on the top of it.
Hey Anthony, I saw your posts on Garden Voices. Pretty Cool! How do you get to be included in Garden Voices?
Fun. I had almost exactly the same post: http://ottawahortiphilia.blogspot.com/2007/01/composting-in-winter.html
If you wanted to compare winter compost scenes...
Phil, I agree that layers are the way to go. But I never have enough greens and browns at the same time though. Tons of leaves in the fall and lots of grass clippings in the summer.
Marc, there's a link to submit your blog to be added to Garden Voices right under the listing of the contributing blogs. You should add yours.
Ottawa, that's too funny that the pictures are so similar. I guess great minds think alike and have compost that looks the same too. :)
Let's hope that we both get heaps of compost at the end of it too!
Ah spring...
Year before last I tried to get a compost pile started a little too late in the year and it never really got cooking enough. Broke down a lot of the stuff but it had pumpkin seeds in it that didn't. The next spring I turned and tilled the whole lot into the ground below it. about two weeks later I found that I had dozens of "wild" pumpkin sprouts all over the area. Was the best pupmkin harvest I've had!
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