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Subject: Re: Compost Pile Garden
From: Polar <smeric@mindspring.com>
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 00 15:35:52
Message-ID: <MOD$000614.24698@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
References: <MOD$000610.25467@rec.gardens.ecosystems>



On 11 Jun 2000 11:53:47 -0400, Bubblegumlake@webtv.net (Roy Turner)
wrote:

>
>Well, after years of trying to get our compost pile to cook better, we
>have finally seen it all. We have a nice assortment of veggies growing
>in the thing! Potatoes, peppers, cukes, and a tomato plant, from the
>food scraps we have thrown in. My husband hoed the weeds out, and we
>are having a ball watching the stuff grow huge. From now on, the
>kitchen scraps are going into trenches directly in the garden area for
>the earthworms and other earth beings to turn into good humus, and the
>compost pile is defunct. HA! Becky

Hi - Just curious whether you kept the (defunct) compost pile
moist/wet. Needs it to cook properly.

And of course you never put meat/fat scraps -- in (defunct) pile or in
trenches?

Good luck on your new approach.

--
Polar