Out of date slimfast (Wife's)and applesauce.

Some napkins, dryer lint, eggshells, wooden matches, coffee grounds, mushroom stems, green onion tops and the gunk I wiped off the counter tops. NT

Assorted shredded paper,
coffee grounds,
tangerine rinds,
strawberry stems and leaves,
soggy cardboard,
labels soaked off jars and bottles,
and a dash of body wash for sensitive skin that irritates my sensitive skin.

Claire

Compostable take out boxes
Shredded paper
UCG
Assorted kitchen scraps
More of my neighbor's leaves that blow over with every storm.

We had a thaw today, so I did a little turning/aerating while I was at it. Had a few pumpkin sprouts in there!

Some mouse manure plus what might have been mouse-generated paper bedding: I needed to do some sewing repairs so I went into a drawer that's seldom opened (I really dislike doing sewing repairs). A mouse or mice had rearranged the sewing materials and left a whole lot of little feces in there. I wasn't sure whether mouse manure needs to be composted before adding to soil but I decided to play it safe.

Claire

Got about 5 kilos of carrot mash from my favorite cafe's juicer onto the regular pile of UCG, kitchen scraps and various leaves after the huge storm we had.
Raked most of the euc leaves (my major trees) and dumped them in the box pile under the ironwood tree, where they will hopefully break down and lose their allelopathic-ness.
The regular pile is really full, and I'm trying to think of something to do with a hole full of half done compost, like maybe make a new garden? Maybe after the rain stops.......

5 gallons of UCG from Starbucks, 5 gallons of finely shredded wood chips from my chipper, 1 gallon of locally generated urine and the usual kitchen scraps.

expired latex condoms. the mites like them more than the worms, but I figured it was worth a shot.

and of course the usual...coffee grinds, tea bags.

thecompostnerd, any luck with composting condoms? have you tried them before? do they break down fast/ slow?

Here are 2 messages that were just posted on last month's thread:

Posted by compogardenermn 4 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 10, 11 at 12:49

I'll post what I added in December:
*Turkey bones from hosting Christmas at our house
*All the napkins, paper plates, food scraps, shrimp tails, etc from hosting Xmas
*About 100 lbs of UCG's from cleaning up around TCF Stadium from the MN Vikings game after the Metrodome collapse- there was a Caribou Coffee tent outside.
*The usual food scraps, veggie peelings and coffee grounds
*Guinea pig bedding and poo
*Food scraps and peelings from Xmas at a relatives house (I've been planting the compost infection/ guilt in almost a lot of my relatives/coworkers and get them to save me their scraps that would have been wasted to the landfill! :-)

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Posted by nancyjeanmc (My Page) on Mon, Jan 10, 11 at 19:35

Do I have the best DH in the world, or what ... He cleaned up the lunch room at work, which was filled with fruit baskets from clients. Fruit that no one took home over Christmas. Fruit that made my compost pile give me a big smile, today.

Tuesday mine gobbled up 6 inches of new snow even with 20 degree temps outside...

Everything is white but the piles turned right back to black.

50 degrees this Saturday predicted... time to get some Oxygen turned into the piles...should be the last heat. As fast as I can get to it now it needs to go thru the screener..

Discovered that I hadn't completely finished off Christmas dinner leftovers. There were some interesting containers of stuff in the back of the fridge.... Brussel sprouts, carrots, and a big container of eggplant caponata. Xmas compost. In my defense, I was out of town for about 10 days after xmas. Can't wait for my summer veggies which will be growing out of my Christmas dinner. Super cool.

broken poinsettia stalk & dried-up flower

dead leaves from the sweet potato vine I'm trying to nurture through the winter (it's a cutting I rooted in water in the window, & some of the leaves got too cold)

cold coffee & grounds & filter

water from dog's dish-
how do they drink perfectly clean water & leave it so polluted?

dog slime... I always wonder how the bowl gets so crusty, so quickly.

I tossed in the usuals today:
shredded junk mail,
kitchen scraps,
some apples past their prime.
three week old cheese soup leftovers
two week old bean soup leftovers

Today I 'borrowed' a heap of leaves from around the street.
About 15 kilos of UCG from two cafes that are in Ground to Ground.
Lawn Clippings.
Food scraps (from my attempt to cook pasta yesterday).

Here is a link that might be useful: Ground to Ground site

The mouse that my cats left for me to find this morning, after they had played it to death. Neither of them recognized it as a potential edible. I hope it's broken down before I turn the pile this spring. Yeeesh.

Fried chicken skin and bones, potato peelings, egg shells, fried Catfish bones, hush puppies, left over pinto beans, left over potatoes, moldy bread, donuts left from church,and misc kitchen scraps.

banana peels, coffee grounds, egg shells, left over baked potatoes, lemon rinds, used paper towels. If I'd just cook more, I'd have more good stuff. LOL Oh! and leaves DH retrieved from the neighbors--he won't rake, just mulches w/ the mower.

Sylvia,
I'm more puzzled about why my dog wouldn't drink from a dirty water bowl, (he'd sit and stare at it), but any puddle in a parking lot was like the best treat ever!
Nancy

Blew a path through the snow and added 2 gallons of kitchen scraps with some old bills mixed in and a lot of apple cores from a dehydrating project. All the home brewed coffee grounds saved for almost a month went out too. I covered the mess with a foot of snow for insulation. I wish now that I had probed the pile for temperature?:/

Curt

"my dog wouldn't drink from a dirty water bowl, (he'd sit and stare at it), but any puddle in a parking lot was like the best treat ever! "

Ain't that the truth???

Maybe dogs realize that they shouldn't drink their own slime, since it could contain pathogens to which they're susceptible, while a little of what my grandmother called "good clean dirt" probably has some healthy minerals....

wait a minute, was I talking about dogs' water dishes, or was I talking about composting???

"wait a minute, was I talking about dogs' water dishes, or was I talking about composting???"
Yes.

Gourds from Thanksgiving decorations
Cardboard boxes softened by the recent snow and rain
Lots of Clementine peels and assorted fruit and veggie waste from the kitchen
Garland and Christmas wreaths----will take out the wire and plastic berries down the road a bit
Spent flowers from a baby shower

Noticed that the middle of the pile was frozen but easily broke up with the pitch fork---I will continue to pile in the goodies and kick start it in the spring with some nice green grass clippings and Starbucks UCG's

squeezed-out lemon wedges

paper napkins

soggy cardboard (it's easy to tear up when it's soggy)

bag of autumn leaves

coffee grounds/filters/cold coffee

2 used teabags

Who needs books, magazines, and newspapers when we can read these wonderfully entertaining and funny threads. There was even a little implied sex by compostnerd. Do you really want us to know your condoms sit around so long they expire? Maybe you need to walk away from your compost pile for a Saturday night date occasionally. Hahaha. Truly this is fun reading and comforting to know what I put in my compost pile is common and on track. Fun reading, thanks all.

Love this thread! was happy to find the newest posts. Every time I look outside at the bleak, cold yard and my pile seems miles away, I can come here and get excited about the whole process all over again. In mine, yesterday, were napkins, orange peels, potato peels, a putrid tomato, tea bags, banana peel, and some spent marigold plants I dug out of the snow. Frozen solid right now, but hope to see a thaw soon.

Kim

Stood in front of my pile tearing up soggy cardboard boxes and thought about why I have been given an 18 yr old son that constantly reminds me that he's 18.....

celery stalks...

clementine rinds...

christmas garland....

lemon wedges...

mowed up debris from one of the front yard beds....

peanut shells....

strawberry tops....

cantalope rinds....

pineapple husks.....

and a lot of thought.........as in I put a lot of thought into how I'm gonna heat my piles up and like most everything else in life you just gotta be patient....it will happen....hope eveyone in the midwest stays warm whilst they wait out the latest snow storm.....JB

It's starting right now! I'm in NW Indiana, and we're expected to get 22 inches by tomorrow. Gotta love Indiana... I made it out to the pile before it started, but can't seem to find anyone willing to pee on the post for me to keep it warm. hm.

Kim

My kitchen compost bin:
Fruit trimmings and some skins (my 4 yr. old doesn't like them)
Veggie trimmings
Tea leaves
Dry cereal that the kids didn't eat
Tissues and paper towels
Cat hair

Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's Garden Adventure