DIY Composting: Making Your Own Black Gold
Growing up we used to have a dessert which combined dried fruits and sweetened wine that was called “compote”. Being that I had 3 brothers and a sister with me at the dining table, you can imagine that we quickly renamed it “compost” and I can’t ever think of one without thinking of the other. Actually a couple of my brothers would probably swear that real “compost” tastes better. Once August is upon us, everything that’s getting planted at my house is in the ground and it’s time to spend a little time working on the compost pile to get it back in working order after a winter of neglect. Lots of folks try to have one and most folks say they have one, but dumping your grass clippings behind the stone wall does not a compost pile make. For starters, I never put grass clippings in the compost pile as they may have pesticides and animal pathogens and with my mulching-mower I don’t have any to use. Let's start with the obvious, the goal of a compost pile is to recycle your every...