Yowzaaaa! (AKA My Compost Pile)

[Kimberlina]

I haven't been in the garden much for several days- the weather has been cold, rainy, dreary- just not fun to go outside, and I don't feel like bundling DD up as she won't enjoy it at all. But I DID need to go to my compost pile today to dump food scraps.

Wow!!! I must be doing something right!!! DH put the lawn clippings on the pile the other day after he mowed. The pile is quite large now, and I had planned on not "containing" it this year, but Iam going to have to. Anyway, I wanted to dump the food scraps, but I don't like to leave them sitting on the top of the pile, so I picked up a little handful of the grass clippings and they were HOT. Yay!!! My little compost bugs are working!!!!!! I couldn't believe just how hot it truly was. I've never noticed his in my compost before, though Iknow this is how it is supposed to work. I finally put the 4:1 ratio into effect nd it seems to be working. Hooray!!!!!!!

[jlxian]

Wow Kimberly! Great work!

[Darlene]

Hot stuff!

[forestdale]

Excellent Kimberly! You've got a gold mine out there. You're right about the mix. If you get the carbon - nitrogen mix right, you'll get hot compost, which means you'll get your compost much faster.

[jlxian]

The road crews recently mowed the ditches on our road and left nice heaps of cut grass in the ditches. LOL I look at those heaps and drool -- I want it for my compost pile! I'm seriously thinking of going up and down the road with my cart and raking it all up and taking it home!

[Kimberlina]

I would grab that grass!

Dh uses a push-mower with a small bag, and he dumps the grass right onto my pile when it needs emptying. Ijust ned to load it up with browns now. I have two huge bags of shredded paper to go in, so I should b all set! Also, a co-worker has 10 huge bags of mulched dried leaves sitting in her yard- I might go get one or two if I get a chance.

[forestdale]

I don't think that we are mowing the lawn, to me we are harvesting the grass.