I laughed so hard when I saw the article in the magazine. I'm a slacker and not afraid to admit it.
I do have good intentions where my compost is concerned, but I always end up just dumping and running. In fact this weekend I dumped lots of meat scraps on the compost pile with the idea that the neighborhood dogs would dig around for the meat scraps and turn my compost for me. Smart dogs, they just neatly ate the scraps off the top of the pile and left.
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tulips 4 buddy at yahoo dot com
Posts: 2404 | Location: Zone 4 Central South Dakota | Registered: June 20, 2002
I'm such a slacker! I do hoard every last potato peeling, but once they get dumped, that's about it until the turning urge strikes.
If I could safely use our grass clippings, that would help nudge me over to the industrialist side; alas, they are from a cursed Bermuda lawn. Maybe I could try composting just the Bermuda clippings in a way as so they could not re-reroot? Ideally, they'd self-mulch back into the lawn. Now that's a thought to ponder.
~Ever notice how God needed a rest after making Woman?
Posts: 157 | Location: Zone 10 - San Diego | Registered: May 12, 2003
Do you have dogs? I forget? Lord woman, you got to put them scraps down there a little bit. Bandit could lick the dressing off of lettuce and lay the leaf back down unharmed. Okay, needed to remember her yet again today. She been gone 2 years and 8 days.
Posts: 5198 | Location: MARYLAND zone 6 | Registered: May 23, 2003
Lisaann, I have one elderly arthritic dog who doesn't have the gumption to dig and root around anymore, but the neighbors have a young dog who's been spending a lot of time in my yard. I figured that one would root around in the compost pile a bit. Oh well. Turning the compost can wait till spring now.
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tulips 4 buddy at yahoo dot com
Posts: 2404 | Location: Zone 4 Central South Dakota | Registered: June 20, 2002
I didn't see this one. I just posted the same on club og. Anyway, right now I a Slacker. Come warmer months I'll be the Industrialist, followed by the Evangelist giving it away. Then I'll wished I'd made more!!!
Rockfish, deep in the Sand Hills of North Carolina "Fail Carpathia"
Posts: 423 | Location: Zone 7b South Central, NC | Registered: January 16, 2003
I definately compost in a very kicked back manner. I once was very industrial about the whole business, even going and collecting leaves and manures, but it's hit or miss with the effort involved, nowadays. I have a pile for leaves and spent plants which I pile up huge, then ignore for a year or more. Kitchen waste gets buried right where my vegies will get planted, as that's the only way to keep it all from being eaten by local creatures, and the only way I see true soil improvement. My current "buried" kitchen waste is not buried as someone removed the shovel and I was too lazy, yesterday, to go find it. Definately slacking, here.
MCat
Posts: 757 | Location: z8 california in the sierran foothills | Registered: August 20, 2006
A confessed slacker though I should really turn it more often as I'm really jsut setting ut dinner for the crows rather than adding to my compost. They usually arrive withing seconds of a new dumping and have rather loud discussions of who gets what. Lisann, one of my late dogs could pick a pill out of a ball of liverwurst and barely get the pill wet.
everything starts with a seed
Posts: 578 | Location: zone 3 but feels like 2 Quebec Canada | Registered: November 26, 2005
I voted "Slacker" its my first choice in composting. This past spring I did add some composting worms, so I have actually turned the compost twice in the past 8 months. I fear they'll cancel my yankee passport if word gets out.
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