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コンポストって、たのしい！🌱✨
メタポネコたちと、コンポストのある暮らし🐾
落ち葉や生ゴミが、土になって、また命を育てる。
自然のめぐりに触れると、ちょっと心もほっこりします。

#メタポネコも #ぼくもコンポストしてるよ😸🌿

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Composting is fun! 🌱✨
Here’s a cheerful scene of Metaponeko and friends enjoying compost life! 🐾
Fallen leaves and food scraps turn into soil, and that soil grows new life.
When we touch the cycle of nature, it warms our hearts a little.

#Metaponeko is composting too! 😸🌿

#コンポスト #堆肥づくり #メタポネコ #ぼくもコンポストしてる #自然のめぐり #こどもとアート #土からはじまる #Metaponeko #CompostLife #SustainableLiving #EcoFriendlyArt #Compost #CircularNature #Illustration

[#EDD #PotagerPédagogique] 👨‍🍳
🌱 Un potager à l’#EnK, restaurant pédagogique du lycée #Bascan à #Rambouillet !
Les élèves d’#HôtellerieRestauration cultivent herbes, légumes rares et #compost 🌿
Une belle leçon de #durabilité et de #circuitscourts !
ℹ️ En savoir plus |→ https://lyc-bascan.fr/un-potager-pedagogique-a-lenk-quand-les-eleves-cultivent-leur-avenir/

Quand les élèves cultivent leur avenir | Un potager à l’EnK, le restaurant pédagogique du lycée Louis-Bascan, à Rambouillet (78).

@tickfoot It’ll be interesting to see what you find.

From researching Johnson-Su compost, the making of which is a year long process, Dr.Johnson says for the first 6 months the compost is bacterially dominant but then the next 6 months the fungi really starts to take over as the compost matures.

Good luck, happy experimenting. #Compost #Composting

The compost heap has had another turn. Outside to inside. 🤞 It will heat up again to above 55°C and then I’ll let it cool down gradually. #Compost #Composting #Allotment #Gardening

A compost heap that has been turned from outside to inside. What used to be the inner material is now visible on the outside of the heap. It maintained a temperature between 55-60°C for three days. The new inner material will now heat up from the microbial activity inside the heap. Some rhubarb leaves are visible behind the compost pile which are in front of a growing bed that is enclosed by a black metal fence.

Yay. The right bay has been emptied and filled with a layer of wood chips on the bottom. Then a layer of dried cut grass. I have a lot more where that came from, but I'd need a green layer in between. Time to eat an ice cream with my neighbour who came to look at the ducklings and take a rest.
Very happy with the work. It always seems like a lot of work but I find composting very rewarding en satisfying. Glad it is done!
#compost #composting #compostodon #permaculture #gardening #biodiversity

3 Bay composting system. The left bay has a little bit in in, on the top of the middle one you you can see a bit of light brown grass and the right bay has nice looking dark compost. There is a green wheelbarrow in front of it

Ok by now I'm sweating like crazy. The bay on the right has been moved to the middle. I've even mixed in new layers of woodchips to add extra carbon and watered every layer as some parts were very dry.
I accidentally also moved an ants nest, but it couldn't be helped.
#compost #composting #compostodon #permaculture #gardening #biodiversity

3 bay compost system with the left bay empty and 2 aeration pipes visible.
The wooden fronts of the bays are removable and move with me as I work

Cheating was tempting. Cheating in this case would mean just dumping all the new stuff on top of the old stuff. But, as I love the system and put much effort in to it usually I just set to work. As I haven't planted anything new this spring I did put all the half way stuff on the ready pile. But the half way pile is emptied right down to the aeration pipes on the bottom. #compost #composting #compostodon #permaculture #gardening #biodiversity

3bay compost system with the middel bay empty. On the bottom you see a grey and yellow pvc pipe with holes in them. They go through the back of the wooden structure to add a bit of airflow to the bottom of the pile

After a break of 3 months not doing anything in the garden before I can do pretty much anything I need to get the compostsystem back on track so I have a place to put stuff. And since today it's 23°c. hot-but-not-as-hot-as-its-going-to-be: time to dig in. Literally. This was how it was all during the winter.
#compost #composting #compostodon #permaculture #gardening #biodiversity

A compost bay divided in three compartments. The middle one is half filled. The compost in the right bay is just about ready. On the left is the newest stuff.
Behind the compost are 2 coppiced willows and a Filipes Kiftsgate rose in bloom.

Eben über das Kompostbuch von Cahrles #Dowding gestolpert, kannte ich noch nicht. Dowding ist ja eigentlich schon ein No-Brainer, und Kompost ist eines meiner Lieblingsgartenthemen...

Aber bevor ich das jetzt spontanshoppe (bin SO kurz davor!), meine Frage an die gärtnernden Leseratten: Hat das schon wer gelesen, und isses gut?

Hätte vor dem unkontrollierten Spontankauf gern ein paar Meinungen dazu. ;)

https://www.buch7.de/produkt/kompost-charles-dowding/1050148391?ean=9783831050628

#garten #garden #gardening #compost #charlesdowding

@potterybyosa @vxo The Mastodon gardening community has shared many tips and photographs. Our composting skills have improved more than would be possible from book learning. We were able to double the size of the three sided pallet enclosure so we can flip left to right and later in the gardening season split the pile to mostly done and mostly fresh. We don’t have a chipper. The greens and browns are usually added in large pieces. #compost, #minnesota, #growyourown

@potterybyosa @vxo The garden bed is looking good. And the food forest to the right has potential meals. Have fun improving the soil with more compost. #compost.

I finally got around to moving the compost pile for the first time in 6 weeks. I started making this compost in December and it’s looking pretty nice. It will make a good mulching compost for some of the beds next spring.

The hot compost has hit the red zone so🤞will continue to stay above 55°C for two more days when it will be turned again. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

Two piles of home made compost either side of a plum tree on an allotment plot. Beyond the tree is a mini wall of comfrey which will be cut once it has stopped flowering. A selection of lidded dustbins are being used to store tapped water and allow it to chlorinate off. A wheelbarrow is next to the bins. The plot is surrounded by greenery. Trees and a hedge are to one side with trees in the distance. The compost piles are in the shady side of the plot. Sunshine hits the other side.

A compost thermometer is in the red zone marked hot. The temperature is almost hitting 58°C. Grass and wood shavings make up the outer layer of the compost pile which the thermometer has been placed into.

昨日のメタポネコくんは佃島の児童館に遊びに行きました。児童館ではペットボトルコンポストづくりのワークショップを行いました。児童館もシモキタ園藝部の皆さんも喜んで下さる行事になってよかったです。参加した小学生達はコンポストにダンゴムシ専用出入り口を作っていたり、ハサミを高速チョキチョキしてバナナの皮を切ったりして楽しそうにしていました。
児童館職員として講師をお招きするのと、元児童館職員として講師をお招きするのは立ち回りが違うので勉強になりました。ご縁があれば他の児童館にもお邪魔してみたいです。

Yesterday, Metaponeko visited the children’s center in Tsukudajima!
At Hisashi Children’s Center, we held a workshop on making PET bottle compost.
I’m really glad it turned out to be an event that brought joy to both the center and the Shimokita Gardening Club members.

The elementary school kids who participated seemed to be having so much fun—some even made special entrances in their compost bottles just for pill bugs, while others were enthusiastically snipping banana peels at high speed with scissors! 🍌✂️🐛

It was also a great learning experience for me. There’s a real difference between inviting a guest speaker as a current staff member of a children’s center and as a former staff member—and this experience helped me see that more clearly.

If the opportunity comes, I’d love to visit other children’s centers too!

😸😸😸😸😸🐾

#ネコ #コンポスト #堆肥 #イラスト #児童館 #子ども #園藝
#cat #compost #garden #illustration #children #play

A compost pile of fresh cut grass and weeds, wood chip mulch, sawdust and wood shavings, some horse manure, rainwater and air. It’s been covered with hessian and left to heat up. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Allotment

A freshly built compost heap with an outer layer of cut grass, weeds and green leaves showing. The upright foliage of some teasel plants are just visible in background. The compost heap is about 1.2 square metres but with a domed, curved top.

A compost heap is covered with hessian to help contain the moisture within the pile and to stop the outside of the pile drying out quite so quickly. A couple of house bricks are holding the hessian sheets in place. Some teasel and phacelia plants are in the background.

The hot compost has been turned once and, as an afterthought I added some more compostable material to the outside. The pile will be turned again later this week. #Compost #Composting #Allotment #Gardening

A compost heap with an outer layer of fresh cut grass and weeds and sawdust and wood shavings wet from being watered with harvested rainwater. The pile is about 1.2 metres wide and deep and about 1 metre high. Two metal water butts are off to the side. A rhubarb plant is behind the compost pile.

A compost thermometer in the side of a compost heap is reading 49°C. The needle is in the green active zone which covers the temperature range from 40°C to 55°C. The pile is heating back up after being turned and had more compostable material added. Green grass leaves and brown wood shavings and sawdust make up the outer content of the pile. The aim is to have the pile to heat up into the red hot zone on the thermometer from 55°C to 70°C for three days. The pile will again be turned with the outer material being placed in the middle and once again heated up. This heating process will kill all the weed seeds in the pile.

And 90 days later we have our first compost. It’s not yet where I want it to be in texture, and we need to add smaller pieces than we did, but I can use it -when I find a spot to add. Currently it’s just chilling out next to the bin, mixed with some leaf mulch, awaiting its moment of glory. Next batch has started “brewing”. I love this!
#Compost #Gardening
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