@Broadfork
Have spent just over an hour skimming more #duckweed off the #lake. Here are the #before and #after photos of the barrow before the contents get tipped in the #compost bins.

@Broadfork
Just realised, yesterday I failed to include the photo of the #compost bin after adding the contents of the three piles of #duckweed and #dredgings.

@Sannjord The garden vegetable starts look healthy. The celeriac is a week or two taller than ours. Our garden is on the southern Minnesota schedule. The mastodon gardening community inspires us to try different vegetables. We share a lot of gardening, compost, and fermenting photographs. Alt text descriptions are a big help to boosting posts. And hashtags are a big help for other gardening enthusiasts to see your posts. Examples. #gardening, #allotment, #compost, #growyourown.

@eugeneparnell Looks good!

I have a mantra: the worst thing you can do in composting is to not make any of it.

There are so many ways of making compost and so many different types of compost that can be made, all for different requirements.

Each to their own, there is a way of composting out there to suit everyone. #Compost

Spring cleaning 3/x
I'm making room in the compost bin for chicken bedding and manure. We do have municipal compost (I use it for brushy material) but the chicken waste, grass and plant clippings, and most autumn leaves we compost on site. I'll spare you the details of cleaning the coop, but the chickens clean like to help. The only thing is, their idea of helping isn't quite same as mine.
#gardening #compost #spring #PNW

Spring cleaning 2. So you put compostables into the left bay. Then when they're partially done, you shift them to the middle bay, then to the right. Two turns and you're done. Here I've pulled off the newer material to get to the older stuff to move it to the right (after using the finished compost and shifting the middle bin first). This is all to make room in the left bin for the chicken manure and bedding that's coming.
2/x
#gardening #compost #spring #PNW

Tree cutters and wood workers have to pay to dispose of this stuff so you’re doing them a favor to take it off their hands.

My husband found out about ChipDrop a few years back. Get a bunch of free mulch delivered to you for free, straight from tree cutters.

And lastly, you can make free #compost by asking a coffee shop to save their used grounds and combine with free untreated sawdust. It’s the only reason I go to Starbucks lol.

https://getchipdrop.com/
#gardening #permaculture