Following Yuu Udagawa's highly acclaimed EPs, she's back again in full effect, presenting four classy, sophisticated, and timeless jazz-electronica-house hybrid tracks for Compost Records. #music #yuuudagawa #GoldenGlow #compost
@Badgardener Nice.
I have a compost trommel which is also really effective at quickly sieving compost. #Compost
This weekend the #FediverseChicks have been "helping" me shuffle my compost heaps around (the middle one full of ready-to use compost went to the right, and the left one full of fresh compost then went to the middle)
The chicks loved every minute of it...
This week's contraption.
I do a LOT of soil sieving - in my work, large garden projects have soil removed/added by the lorry load, but with smaller ones, I'll bag it up and bring it home to be sieved, mixed with organic matter and then re-used elsewhere.
I'm also opening up the large 'compost' bins, which in reality are just aged cold piles of sticks, grass cuttings and chicken poo.
So it was a long overdue project to make a wheelbarrow frame for (much) quicker processing: the frame itself has a fixed one-inch mesh for initial sorting, and there's a removable half-inch mesh for finer grading afterwards.
Put about half a dumpy bag of waste soil through it yesterday, and will do about a cubic metre of compost today, mainly for throwing into the beds.
Should have done this AGES ago.
International Compost Awareness Week is here. 4th May - 10th May.
The theme for ICAW 2025 is Sustainable Communities Begin With Compost.#Compost #ClimateAction #Community #Health #SoilHealth
A record-breaking 3.8 million pounds of compost was collected in the second week of a new recycling mandate in New York City — a number so overwhelming that the city is opening a new site dedicated to the “black gold.” #nyc #compost #Recycling #environment #climate #ClimateChange #earth #food #waste #renewables #foodwaste
Yesterday I decided the forecast looked relatively safe (low risk of sub-50 °F nights), so I transplanted my tomatoes. I used a post-hole digger to make an 18" hole, then filled with compost from home. The bottle-and-PVC contraptions allow me provide water to the roots. #GrowYourOwn #tomatoes #gardening #compost #garden #allotment
@yvan Pumpkin Beth’s blog is worth a read. https://www.pumpkinbeth.com/2025/04/the-top-performing-composts-from-my-2024-compost-trials/
The peat free composts she recommends are:
Dalefoot
Heart of Eden
Bulrush substrate
Sylvagrow
Of peat free composts I’ve only used a little Sylvagrow. Texture was good, made from bark fines and coir. I added some vermicast to it at the time as well so it’s not a bonafide review.
It filled a gap after my homemade compost was set back a little a couple of winters ago.
#Compost #Allotment
@yvan The #compost #Compostodon tag community might have advice.
Wednesday April 30, 2025. Drama in the compost! The compost pile haa warmed up to 55 F (13 C). This will be the first flip of the pile since the material was covered with the fall 2024 leaves. #gardening, #compost, #minnesota, #zone4b, #growyourown, #sowbug, #centipedes, #Earthworms, #nematodes, #nodig, #allotment.
Going to make a few of these fence composters. They're just ingeniously cheap, fast and efficient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_goluMKO8
I've previously built a nice scrap wood twin composter for #Schwiemu and that apparently works very well, but this is quicker and you can move them around when empty.
Turning over the compost pile is quick & easy!
Ok, the wide bucket is a little large for the wheelbarrow, but it got full anyways! 
This simple compost pile worked a lot better than the fancy plastic composter in the garden (came with the property). Just not enough oxygen in that thing.
Sadly the pile was full of dubious materials from the previous owners, so I'm not using it for food growing. I fished out most. Maybe next year.
So satisfying to complete a project with reclaimed timber that I picked up for free. Will add hinged lids later on. Now I'm off to fetch the neighbours to haul this monstrosity to its final location. #gardening #compost
My wife was laughing at me last night. We were watching TV and I was on my tablet researching and I had a notepad (paper and pen variety) next to me where I was frantically scribbling down notes.
She asked me what I was doing and I told her "Working out a good recipe for your #compost. You have way too much green matter for the nitrogen and you need more brown. However it seems cardboard and newspaper is actually quite safe to use. Where's the shredder?"
This was at 11pm last night. She had to tell me "NO!" as I would have started shredding old newspapers and mixing it into our existing compost bins in the dark by torchlight :D
This is my #Autistic / #ADHD / #AuDHD part at work (I don't know which part.. but it's definitely one or more of them :D )
When I start a new project I deep dive and become ever so slightly obsessed by it. once the initial surge dies off I either grow bored or setting into a comfortable long term interest/ fascination. As my wife and I will be working in the #Garden and #Allotment a lot now we're in spring I think this will become a long term one rather than a brief flash in the pan I'm all too used to.
26 Jersey Knight asparagus crowns planted! They look weirdly like sea creatures, squid or jellyfish.
Sheet composting didn't work too well here. The plant material decomposed but the paper didn't. Cardboard looked brand new, didn't break down at all.
I've been more optimistic about garden soil than I am with this plot, tbh. Onward!
@JimmyB I rarely get to watch anything uninterrupted but this segment was a good one. It’s good to see him doing so well.
I bought some of his living compost in the fundraising for his electric van and I can vouch for its worth. Although it doesn’t go far it had impressive results. #SoilHealth #Compost #Biodiversity
It was lovely to see Michael Kennard from Compost Club in Lewes on BBC Gardener’s World this evening.
Compost club is a great community composting hub and producer of living compost from people’s kitchen waste. Awesome project. #Gardening #Compost #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateAction
