I am trying to finish cleaning up my yard etc. I looked at my sorry Ivy in the house so out it went to compost pile,soon I will have leaves for it which I really need. I may have to start shredding papers but I've been using them for muclching.

~coffee filter and UCG
~several teabags
~carrot peels, red pepper, celery, onion trimmings
~house plant I'm tired of babying and it's soil

Buried this in the lasagna bed that I wasn't pleased with earlier but it's amazing how loose the soil is for about 12" deep. I had thot this bed was a failure but guess not. I covered it with fresh grass clippings in an attempt to disguise the smell of compost so the bear isn't attracted. He hasn't been back to my knowledge. This bed should be pretty good by next spring and I may plant garlic there.

UCGs, kitchen scraps, couple gallons of tomato remains from making sauce for canning (house smells soooo good), feathers, carrot tops, pulled pea & bean vines, scraps & paper plates from a dinner meeting I attended, all topped off with liquid gold hehe.

UCG and filters
melon rinds
wet cardboard
egg shells
green bean shells
horse manure

brown leaves & stems from perennials
the usual coffee/filters/grounds & tea leaves/bags
shredded office paper & junk mail
feathers found near the bird feeder

Belive it or not I am still waiting on leaves they are hanging in there. So for the compost the first of the fall salad trims from the high tunnel. Lettuce and radish again, finally! A little arugula mixed in for pepper taste I think my pile is happy.
The worm bins got all the rest of the kitchen scraps.

Curt

The usual, debris from desperately bringing in greenhouse plants or cuttings against the fall frosts. I figure I've got about two weeks, at least, but who knows.

I have way too much weeds to fit in the compost section this year because I was ill for two months --- you can imagine what happened to the garden, aaaarrrrrrgh.

However, I just keep grimly pulling them and chopping them and adding them to the pile, throwing them up as far to the back as possible, and then it rains and the level sinks down again. But I need that middle section (with chicken manure in it now) as an auxilliary compost section.

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Today it's gonna get

oldish homemade soup with lots of vegetables & spices & very little salt

paper bags from what-a-burger (how do those things pile up in the car like that?)

roots that got separated from their plants in flower pots
(& how does *that* happen?)

Yesterday my compost pile got the whole overgrown herb bed, which was of course mostly an appalling amount of very happy spearmint crowns and roots. When all I really want is dill and parsley.

Then I resowed the bed with parsley, put on wire fencing cat deflectors and watered in. Parsley is a cool weather veg -- I could get lucky.

Today I added about 10-15 gallons of fresh seaweed, lime, and 3 totes of horse manure with shavings. That's on top of the 6-8 totes (I'm losing track!) of manure/shavings, bunch of fish guts, and two huge barrels of used coffee grounds that I added on Saturday : )

Y'all are slacking off!

better look for sumpn to throw in that pile before your "compost wacko" status is in question!

I've added:

shavings from several eye pencils.
torn-up newspaper from office & home
paper towels & Kleenex
tea/teabags/coffee grounds/filters/cold coffee
popcorn that refused to pop
orange juice (once it gets a little warm, you just can't get it cold enough again)
banana peels/grapefruit rinds/apple cores
ancient rice krispies

Ooh sylviatexas! Don't let annpat know about the rice krispies.

Over the weekend mine got

UCG
remains from the pole beans
corn husks / cobs (which the dog promptly pulled out and ate)
grass clippings that have been drying out for a month
experimental tomato soup (can you guess the experiment failed?)
watermelon rinds (which the dog also pulled out and ate)
lodge pole pine shavings/saw dust
shredded paper
paper plates and assorted cardboard boxes torn to pieces

This time of year, the compost gets lots of fruit peelings and cores. Also, the frost-killed tomato, squash, and eggplant plants.

I got a shopping cart of bread for $2. The whole grain goes into dog food, the white and rye bread goes into the compost.

What is taking the leaves so freaking long to start falling, I'm running our of browns to add to the pile. I've been getting tones of UCG and no browns, I'm pissed.

I use shredded office paper & torn-up newspaper when autumn leaves are scarce.

Was just up town to discuss upcoming local municipal election with a town councillor, she was eating a banana, I got the peel. She just shook her head.

Lloyd

I had this nice bag of shredded office paper from work, and it was doing the browns work just fine all month. Yesterday I went out to put in the daily grind (that's UCG, veggie peelings, etc) and the bag was gone. Not anywhere. So I covered up the day's leavings with roots and dirt of two ex-tomato plants, and will have to go back to work tomorrow and appropriate more. I have to get it fast before the guy with the hamsters takes it.
We are shriveling up from no rain since April. The trees are not so much dropping leaves for fall as they are giving up in despair. How I wish I could see the foliage turn....

I have to get it fast before the guy with the hamsters takes it.

Maybe you should ask the guy with the hamsters for the shredded paper after the hamsters are done with it.

It is plain to see that Americans are not yet over the save-save-save mentality of the Great Depression. Though many are three generations down the line from it ----- [:-)

Verse from those years my mother taught me:

Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without.

I keep thinking with what you all are putting in compost I could feed all my hens and never buy chicken feed!!

A dead 'possum.

Well, if I had hens, I'd feed 'em the peels, rinds, cores, & leftovers, too...
& they'd donate part of it back to be added to the compost!

My family only eats a couple dozen eggs each year, and then only in baked goods. There's no point in keeping chickens.

My family does eat the fruit and veggies I grow with the compost. So I figure that whatever goes into the compost is getting good use.

Nothing goes into the compost if there is a better use for it.

Darn little Burg I live in passed a law NO CHICKENS, NO DUCKS NO RABBITS, ETC. Seems like the jerk water wants to have Big city laws

Curt :(

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Hey Pheobe,

"I keep thinking with what you all are putting in compost I could feed all my hens and never buy chicken feed!!"

I've found lots of stuff in super market dumpsters. You might try that.
..

Iris leaves.

(Is there no end to iris leaves?
or am I just reaping the harvest of neglecting my irises for the past 2 or 3 or 100 years?)

old potting soil

shredded & torn-up paper

coffee/grounds/filters

tea/teabags

I even had some carbonated soft drinks this time;
a friend gave me something that I thought was Cherry Coke, turned out to be cherry soda.

tasted like cough syrup to me, but the microbes probably won't care.

momstar, thank you for thinking of me and the others who share a refined sensibility. I'm barely able to read these What Have You Fed...threads because, let me be frank, some of you are disgusting.
No offense.

"some of you are disgusting.
No offense."

(shuffling my feet & blushing bashfully)

Aw, shucks, you're just a'sayin' that!

My compost/lasagna/sheet compost area gets the usual stuff every day: UCG & filters, tea bags, veggie peelings (tomato and avocado today but not the avocado pits as they *might* become houseplants), banana peels, the occasional paper towel (don't use many), some tissues, and the petunias I finally pulled up. They are still nice and green but no longer blooming so the compost was calling them. Also some houseplant trimmings and if they don't shape up they'll be there soon too. While I love miniature roses they really don't make great houseplants in my house.

Good thing I didn't post the other day as Annpat would be upset hearing what I had to compost. Sorry AP but I wish you'd advise us where to dispose of the unmentionable item - I always feel so guilty and think of you when I'm throwing *it* in the compost but what else would I do with *it*?

"I always feel so guilty and think of you..."

That's all I ask. That I can be your moral compass.
Lucky, do you have one of those vacuum sealing contraptions meant for freezing food? I have chickens, but here's what I would do if I were you. After vacuum sealing *it*, you should carefully duct tape the seams, taking care to push out any air bubbles that might form under the tape. (Moisture could enter via those bubbles later and compromise the seam.) I would then take one of those plastic bags that the grocery store provides in the produce department and place the package containing *it* inside. Knot the top of the bag and secure with duct tape. If you have lots of plastic bags (and who doesn't?), you could repeat this step as many times as make you comfortable. After you're done, put the package containing *it* into your usual trash bag and send it to the landfill.
Once you're used to doing it, like everything else, it will become second nature to you and not take that much time.
And you're going to feel so much better about yourself. I sense that you've been feeling bad about yourself lately and your slovenly ways.

Snow!