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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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The biggest potato plant we have is one that grew on the compost, by itself, probably from some discarded potato 😆

#Compost #Potato #Homestead #Gardening

A potato plant or two. It's very big. It's growing out of a large compost pile at the edge of a meadow. Some grass, branches and wood ashes are visible nearby.

Green rose chafers, we love these!

When I find a rose chafer grub when turning the compost it goes back into the compost. The more the merrier.

#insects #compost

A green rose chafer on a leaf of a rosebush.

La quantité d’ordures par habitant envoyée au dépotoir diminue, mais la cible «zéro déchet» à Montréal reste lointaine.#compost #recyclage #Montréal #poubelle #zérodéchet
Les poubelles remplies de matières recyclables ou compostables

Please remember to remove your fruit stickers.

No one needs this in our compost!

Either take them off at the shop (maybe find somewhere convenient to stick them), or take them off when you put your groceries away at home. Much easier than digging through soggy peels and food scraps, and much better chance they won’t end up as toxins in our local food systems for generations to come!

#sayNoToFruitStickers

#compost #communityCompost #KensingtonVic #Kensington3031

A plastic bucket lid, covered in fruit stickers and plastic contaminants recovered from compost.

A compost pile being built. More material and more collected rainwater will be added today. The hot composting process has begun. #Compost #Composting #Allotment #Gardening

A compost pile in the corner of an allotment plot. Two metal water butts are off to the other side of a grassed pathway. The compost heap is about a square meter in size. It has an outer layer of weeds, grass and sawdust. Some horse manure, garden weeds, rainwater, sawdust and vegetable peelings have also been added to the pile. There is more material and water to be added. The temperature of the pile will be measured with a soil thermometer. After the pile has heated up to between 55-65°C for three days it will be turned outside to in. The cooler outer material will then heat up to a similarly high temperature.

Cooking with Compost! (June 2025)

June 15, 2025, 11:30:00 AM AEST - GMT+10 - Behind Kensington Town Hall, 3031, Kesnington, Australia

https://my-group.events/events/29698d47-5406-4c98-b9d9-6c88129ff0a5

L’arrondissement récolte les fruits d’une «culture du tri» instaurée graduellement depuis deux décennies.#compost #déchet #Saint-Laurentarrondissement #LeDevoirdecité
Moins de déchets, davantage de propreté dans l’arrondissement de Saint-Laurent à Montréal

Esa canasta está llena de #compost. Por una rendija está creciendo un jitomate. Por otra rendija está creciendo esta planta.

¿Alguien sabe qué es?

Sospecho que algo bueno y comestible.

A basket full of compost. From one side, through the weaving, a young plant is sticking out. Do you know what it is; is it something eddible?

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #compost

Composted melon seed sprouted in the flood wall. I put a little flag by it so I don’t step on it. Guess we’ll see what happens.

A small green seedling is emerging from dark, rich soil, surrounded by mulch and small pieces of wood.

My words in the RHS Grow Your Own newsletter this month

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/features/four-steps-to-perfect-compost

#gardening #compost #growyourown

I took a trip to the local wood reclamation place to pick up some more sawdust for compostIng or using as a pathway mulch.

It’s good to hear more people are wanting to use their by-products but they are now selling the bags for £4 each when they’ve been free of charge forever.

It’s a small price to pay for closing another loop but it’s still another cost.

Also it was quite shocking to see the high price of wood nowadays. #ReUse #Compost #Wood

@hiway Yes. Harvesting rogue plants to feed the compost is zen. #compost.

@hiway That’s exactly how I will be seeing it when I start attacking the unwanted overgrowth next week.

I’m looking forward to making compost piles again much more than I am to doing the weeding. #Composting #Compost

Turning my hot compost cubes, one two days ago, one today. These had a lot of wood chip, so topping up with green stuff - mostly grass cuttings and coffee grounds. Got up to 75°C before slowly cooling back down. #compost #gardening

Two compost cubes made of pallets, against a fence, on a grass lawn. The left cube is closed, right one open, with most of the compost pulled out, being turned and topped up.

Closer side view of emptying the left hand cube of its compost. The compost has been dug out into a load of wooden planks laid down over the grass lawn.

Left hand compost cube with front and top removed, with all the compost still inside. You can see the layers of compost in the front, and lots of un-composted wood chips on the top.

@tippitiwichet A hole in the ground under the mulch is fine for composting when you are Ok with possum visitors. Our outdoor compost spot gets visited by raccoons looking for vegetables. But there aren’t any meat scraps or bones. We add the new vegetable scraps under the mulch to reduce the opportunity for flies. Our vegetable scraps from two people disappear under the preexisting mulch. The Minnesota action worms are earthworms. Composting worms freeze off. #compost, #minnesota

#compost

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