I find it absolutely super cool that I can throw all my kitchen scraps into a bucket, add some dried leaves from the yard and… with a little stirring now and then, it turns into this!!
Every year around this time I’m able to harvest this black gold. We (ok, mostly Mich) dig it into the veggie garden and where ever new plants go in. This year with the doubling of the veggie garden and the growth of some of the other flower gardens we used the wheelbarrow load of compost up pretty fast. I think we got the best stuff so far this year too as I made a little compost sifter to separate the good, finished compost from any larger, not-quite-done pieces (like corn cobs). I added the stuff I sifted out to the new batch of decaying material already started in our second compost bin.
Anyway, both the flower and vegetable gardens are looking great this year, and this compost certainly plays a part. Not only that, but it helps cut down on our need for curbside solid waste (garbage) disposal quite significantly. Of course we are not totally satisfied so we have also started a worm composing bin. Those little red wigglers should produce buckets of nice worm castings (organic fertilizer!) in no time. The best part of all of this? Higher yield from the veggie patch! Yum!
