Very old and nasty rice
UCG
veggie peels
shredded office paper

DGF brought me a posy of wildflowers from her walk, sparkling blooms after the rain. "Look at the pretty pink one, it's my favorite. I brought it with roots so you can put in in the garden!" Had to tell her it's bindweed, and that it can't even go on the pile, it must be tossed far, far, FAR away, but the rest are just lovely, sweetie.

Last night i added a few ounces of filtered beer :)

2 cases of spoil mushrooms, seedless weed & grass matter, Dry broom sage/grass, burlap bags too rotten to be mulch.
Coffee waste,tea waste,egg shells.wood tender& peels.
tn do they have AA for compost piles?:-)

I spent hours weeding today!

do they have AA for compost piles?

nah.

To get "better", you have to *want* to get "better".

so they tried it, but nobody signed up.

I fed my compost pile:

eggshells
coffee grounds & filters
tea bags & leftover tea
leftover vegetables
starchy water from cooking potatoes
kleenex
torn-up newspaper & junk mail
a few autumn leaves to cover the icky stuff

Where's everbody at?????

I can tell it's officially spring/summer here by what goes in the compost:
a whole bunch of rind & seeds & stringy stuff from a big giant cantaloupe
'strings' & ends from string/snap beans
starchy cooking water
mushy bits of tomatoes
deadheads from the roses
old cut flowers & the icky water they were in

& the usual, classic ingredients that go in regardless of season:
coffee grounds & filters & that last little bit in the bottom of the pot or cup that always gets a few grounds in it
soggy tea leaves & teabags
torn-up junk mail

What have you fed *your* compost today???

a retired squirrel, dead pizza bones, lawn clippings, egg shells, and coffee grounds

Cut down the nasty Scotch Broom before it blooms. A couple really aged bananas, egg shells, coffee grounds, weekly advertising flyers

Mashed up clam shells, shrimp shells, paper towels, kleenex, pulled weeds, veggie scraps, and really creepy crawly looking leftover spaghetti sauce that was hiding behind the pickles in the fridge... :-)

I peed on mine

Some grass clippings, and a 5 gallon bucket of diluted urine to a big ol' pile of oak leaves.

LOL I peed on mine also! Actually I collected in a bucket and poured it on - you guys have such an advantage! I have a relatively new compost pile which is about 6'x6'x4' tall and I'm burying all my kitchen scraps in it still. Saw a bit of steam one morning. Eventually I'll have to turn it but I've started another pile nearby with the garden trimmings and weeds and will turn it over on to that after awhile.

So my usual daily additions are fruit and veggie trimmings, eggshells, tea bags, paper towels - nothing too exotic but it all adds up at a gallon a day.

I was too lazy to swim down to the compost yard after the latest 5 cm of rain, so merely separated some layers of sheet compost in the front gardens and fed:

rusty steel wool pads
iron powder from some one-off hunter's hand warmers
Standard menu of peels, seeds and pits
coffee grounds
spent tea
fruit past its prime
Ancient sparkling fruit juice
A bottle of wine
A few jars of very old jams
some kitty hairballs
peed-in pine pellet litter
matted fur clippings
claw and nail clippings
lint
a few full vacuum bags
& a beer

Oak flowers, some oak flowers and more oak flowers.

latest additions to the microherd's salad bar:

canned pumpkin from a very rusty can
torn-up junk mail
eye pencil shavings
banana peels
last week's leftovers from office fridge
stems & leaves from cut flowers
(followed a few days later by droopy cut flowers & icky water)
squeezed-out lemon wedges
& the usual coffee grounds & filters & teabags

half a yard of grass clippings
3 trash bags of shredded paper and paper board boxes
5 banana peels
contents of my workshop shop vac
used paper towels
clipped leaves from burning bush pruning
third of a yard of semi composted leaves from last fall
one and one half inches of dirty rain (lots of dust in the air from farmers planting corn and soybeans nearby)
Bucket full of daffodil dead-heads

You still have daffodils?????

Throw some autumn leaves on me; I'm green with envy!

lead paint chips my idiot neighbor shot off his foundation with a pressure hose... sigh

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The ceremonial peach pit from the finished pile to the new one.
..

Weeds, quackgrass, extra plants, as well as the garden soil attached. I've made a new pile with this stuff and will eventually tarp to kill the grass and dandelions. Have decided not to turn my good compost pile on top of these noxious weeds as it will be finished soon and the weeds will take longer.

In my regular compost pile I buried the same ol', same ol' kitchen scraps, plus a very large dried dead toad I found in the garden, plus the vacuum bag full of dust, cat and dog hair, and who knows what GD may have left laying around - probably find some miniscule plastic Barbie accessory in my finished compost eventually.

In the last couple of days I have fed the heap....

A two gallon bag of coffee grounds.
A heaping wheelbarrow of tomato prunings.
A 15 gallon tree pot full of radishes.
And last but not least about 8 lbs of 21-0-0 pelleted fertilizer.

Cleaned out the freezer:
quart of frozen salsa
freezer burned green beans
ice covered pineapple
rotting limes from the yard
assorted weeds
& water!

Oak flowers. (I think its going to be a big acorn year.)

Cooked Wheat berries so old and fuzzy it was a garden in itself
the usual peelings, scraps and UCG
Shredded office paper
hidden bottle of nettle tea gone bad

Summer's here to stay.

torn-up office paper, newspaper, & junk mail
coffee grounds & filters
used tea bags
bits of strawberries
leftover potatoes & starchy water
weeds (I have no weeds my own self of course, I had to import them from a friend's garden!)