Wind scattered my leaf pile
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Can I use this for a new compost pile?
Comments (7)Got Mold!!!! you are getting garden gold. It's already composting. If you can mix it & especially if you can mix fresh HM in it it will be great compost. Don't make making compost get overwhelming. As it is, it will become compost. You can speed up the process by mixing & fluffing to get air for the "bugs", bacteria, worms etc. so they can multiply quicker. Adding the HM will feed the microbes, worm etc. & make a richer compost. Fresh HM will help it heat up, specially if it has the urine (nitrogen source) mixed with it. Grass clipping will need mixed in but also help heat it up. Try to keep it DAMP, not wet. Mix it every 2 weeks or so, in 6 weeks it should be usable in a garden. More browns, like old leaves, straw, cardboard etc & you'd have the perfect mix but not necessary for it to break down. What you have already will be compost, faster if mixed add the HM if you can. Mother Nature will make it compost even if yo do nothing, fun to help her though. Mix & keep Damp, not wet is key....See Moreseeking advice on my compost pile
Comments (20)All, Good to hear all this. I am only bumping this topic with updates as I find the information useful and hopefully so will others. To be clear on a few points, I originally did use my chipper to reduce freshly fallen leaves but no more. I keep them loose long enough to dry thoroughly and then they easily crush to smaller size by hand, only about 30 minutes work. At this point I started my new pile for next year, mixed in some greens and a couple shovels of old compost to "prime the pump". This is the pile that is already very active with internal temperatures near 125 F. I will continue to monitor the old and the new piles as I am in Zone 4 and our coldest months are January/February. In addition, we are semi-arid around here and I will need to occasionally add moisture. My old pile is indeed fogging but only slightly and it is visible only on the coldest of mornings. I will stick my thermometer in the pile to make certain what the temperature actually is before tilling into the soil. Best of holidays to you all....See MorePreparing for Santa Anna Winds
Comments (4)I live at the coast and have no problems with the winds. However what kind of bench do you place your pots on. If they are slatted or heavy hardware cloth, you can wire the pots to the bench. Also, I always double tag my orchids with an in-pot tag and a wired on tag. I grow cattleyas so I wire the tag close to the botton of the psuedobulb and not at the juncture of the leaf and bulb (the leaf can eventually fall off and the tag will too....See MoreAll you spirited Seed Scatterers...
Comments (44)mmqchdygg, I am recently disabled. My spine is broken at three places (not repairable by surgery due to a prior surgery gone bad) and I have numerous other nerve disturbances and degenerative processes going on in my body because of that. I can no longer stand, or walk very well, or for very long. Getting down on my hands and knees and bending over is completely out of the question. Kinda hard to garden if one can't do any of those things, wouldn't you say? My gardening friends here, are just trying to help me find ways to continue doing what I love to do. I would consider the planting pole a "tool" not a gadget and I think it would be great tool for anyone who suffers from back pain if they bend over too much or have bad knees or trouble getting off the ground etc. It works readily from a standing or sitting position. You just have to make it to the proper length that will work for you. Yesterday, equipped with my new planting pole, so beautifully created by you wonderful Cottage Gardeners, I was able to plant more than 300 Hollyhock seeds. There is a little trick to using it, I found. It took me a bit to figure it out though. Finally I realized that if you stick the attached stick in the ground at an angle vs straight down, with the pole lying directly above the stick, rather than pulling the wooden stick completely up and out of the hole and then fiddling to line the pole back up over the hole, you can instead pull the stick partially out of the hole (because it went in at an angle). Automatically the pole is lined up over the hole. You can now drop your seed down the pole and it acts like a chute sending the seed straight into the hole. One warning, don't push the stick into the earth so far that you plug the pole with dirt! It is a little bit tricky to get it up in the air so you can clean out the hole without spilling all your seed out of the yogurt cup that is up at the top by your funnel, LOL! Otherwise...You are in bussiness!! With many many thanks to all of you, I'm gardening again! I can't tell you what it means to me. MeMo...See Moredaninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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