Mowed leaves and grass

Four totes of horse manure with shavings, a lot of chili (I had nowhere else to dump it), and I plan on grabbing 4-6 bags of eelgrass/seaweed later.

Mine got an amazing mixture. I was so proud I nearly choked up.

grass clippings
shredded leaves
lodgepole pine saw dust
shredded paper
spent garden plants

lol momstar.

I added one tote of horse manure/shavings and 2 huge garbage cans and 4 5gal buckets of used coffee grounds to my 5 compost piles :)!!

sweet potato vine cuttings that I rooted at the office & forgot to put into pots & they croaked.

wilted salad

leftover (sugary) spiced apple cider

& the usual
office paper
coffee grounds & filters
tea bags
leftover coffee & tea

Kitchen compost bucket and leaf litter.

I am working on the local municipality to offer a low cost delivery service for manure from a county source. Many gardeners could use it by the truck load but don't have a truck or no time and energy to load it themselves. If the service is offered, I will be a regular customer.

stickery hulls from datura seeds (those things *bite*!)

trumpet vine

broken 4 o'clock foliage & tubers

needles from bald cypress

leftover noodles

eggshells

moldy tomato

gettin ready to put some trout carcasses in the pile

Into the medium tumbler....

3 gallons of cooked mixed vegetables
2 buckets of UCGs from work.

Lloyd

eggshells
banana peels
stale crackers
leaves
dried foliage from cleaning up the flower beds
along with a few late tomatoes, that had split and molded on the ground
the guts from baking pumpkins

Fishing was good so in the trench 2 gallons of fish cleaning scraps one gallon of yucky kitchen waste. In the pile all the rest of the garden plants that did not make it through the frost. A lot of junk mail and other accumulated paper and some of the vegetable/fruit scrap from the kitchen.

Curt

I'm no longer burying compost as the ground is getting hard (frozen) and covered with a thin layer of that white stuff - too bad IT'S not compostable! Anyhow, I'm now using my big black cone shaped *thing* to collect goodies. The 3 pots of mini-roses that didn't like my lack of care went in for the first layer and on top of that went 2 buckets of veggie trimmings and other kitchen scraps and a paper towel.

Veggies and Fruits that I over bought and did not eat :-(
23ish bags of leaves from the the neighbors . . .

. . . and some pumpkins from my watering hole's Pumpkin carving contest.

Dotty, we compost snow!

;-)

Lloyd

I let the leaves and grass stay on the ground to feed the soil but we have plenty of other stuff to add daily to compost.

A few maybe unusual ones are:

Dead voles and moles that the cats and dogs catch and play with until they tire of them.

Box-elder bugs.

old rope made out of alpaca hair
food scraps
banana leaves
6 big bags of oak leaves

mushy tomato
scrapings from plates from office Thanksgiving luncheon
(missed out on the dried-out raw carrots when someone else took them to her horse!)
icky cherry soda
teabags
coffee grounds & filters
Kleenex
junk mail

Hello, I am a compost wacko in training. I've been having a lot of fun getting in touch with my inner 3-year-old, who loves mudpies and earthworms and watching stuff rot. I had some old straw on the ground in a pen where I take my dogs to potty at night, and today I raked up this old pee-soaked straw and put it on my mulch pile. I replaced it with new straw for my dogs to pee on, and am looking forward to slowly adding more to the pile over the years.

I also bought a bale of fresh, locally grown alfalfa hay for my chickens. They don't get to free range so it's a good way to give them some protein-rich greens to forage on. Really looking forward to putting the leftover stems, covered in chicken poop, into my pile. :-)

--Maureen

Welcome piranhafem!

I love to hear stuff like this, where someone gets to use something more than twice!

A large abandoned ant nest (about 10 gal.) comprised of shredded bark, leaves and grass.

50 lbs of rotting bananas
5 gallon bucket of various kitchen waste
4 large Hallowe'en pumpkins
2 buckets of UCGs (5 gallon)
9 bags of shredded leaves, 4 of them mixed with old grass clippings.

Actually added these items last Sunday in -2c sunny weather. The pile was hot from it's beginnings a week ago so the additions should warm-up fast. I can only add every now and then - never daily. :O)

Today and for the forseeable future leaves. I don't have a way to shred them I wish I did. But I keep working them and hoping for the best. It's just slower than if I could because the shredding comes with the turning of the pile. Something I should be doing about once a week. Of course, once I finish raking up the leaves I'm to tired to turn the pile. lol

It's such a pain getting old.

Sigh. It got to -8 degrees outside and 16 degrees inside the garage, so the compost got 3 flats of tomatoes, 6 flats of pears, and 10 gallons of apples that got frozen and ruined.

Oh, and half a loaf of bread that nobody wanted to eat.

Since I have way too much leaves in my compost pile and not enough green, I purchased some alfalfa nuggets WOW what a difference they made in 36 hrs I was up to 150 degrees. Soak them in water first. Its 48 degrees out this am and the pile is still at 153 degrees. Good Green stuff.

rfonte649,

I've used Alfalfa pellets quite a few time to heat up my piles in the past - still have 2 5gallon buckets full. Not sure where you got yours but try to buy them at a farm supply store where they sell the pellets at a nice low price for a huge bag. :O)

Well today it is some romaine lettuce that went bad and then banana and orange peels. I do love my clemintine oranges.

dried-out cookies (forgot I had them-what a waste!)
sweet potato peelings
"dregs" from the bottoms of several wine bottles
plate scrapings from Thanksgiving dinner

More fruit rinds.