May 24th, 2009

...now browsing by day

 

Compost post: What a nice surprise!

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

What a nice surprise to come home from a trip and find that Brad had built me the tumbling composter I wanted!

The hatch

Aerated tube inside the composter

———–

If you haven’t followed it, we’ve been doing a lot of reading on composting to prepare for this. For the mix in this batch, I used those bush-type weeds I’m allergic to and dry grass mixed with some tea and coffee grounds and dried cow dung as activator. I’ll add some veg and fruit peels, etc. over time.

I’ve set up a page to show compost updates over time for those who are interested.

More blooms

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Despite 100 degree temperatures all week and no rain, things continue to bloom like crazy here.

Cholla

Dessert willow

(P.S. This was from last week. This week, it rained!)