Composters Log - Back In Business!
Seeing the glorious warm sunlight melting snow off my deck today inspired me to free my compost bin from its snowy cocoon. Truth be told (and indicated in the first photo), the ‘cocoon’ has receeded considerably in recent weeks. As you may recall (from this post) I piled the snow pretty high so as to provide as much insulation as possible, but its amazing what a few mild days and some late winter sun can accomplish.
I wasn’t too surprised to see that not much has changed inside the bin since it was buried. I have little doubt however that we’ll start seeing some serious biological action very soon. Temperatures are actually expected to get up past 10 degrees C (50 F) this week so that should really help kickstart microbial activity.
I’m certainly glad to have access to the outdoor bin once again. My indoor worm bins have been processing a fair amount of food waste, but it’s getting to the point where I need to start diverting kitchen scraps (at least until the worm bins stabilize somewhat).
Anyway, that’s all for now, but rest assured there will be more composting news before too long!
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Note: The Winter Composting Extravaganza has moved to a new home. To catch all the latest winter composting action be sure to check out the Compost Guy Winter Composting Page.
Written by Bentley on March 20th, 2007 with
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