Composting Away...and Away...and...

[teacup]

I have a nice big compost pile. And I never do a blasted thing with it! I had vaggie garden fantasies that didn't come to fruition (har). My flowers beds are overrun with blasted violets and other weeds. I guess I'm just venting. At least composting is better than adding it to a landfill.

[AmyC]

Don't feel bad. We have been composting since we moved in (will be two years in October) and I haven't done anything with it until very recently. We were putting kitchen scraps and wood ashes and much yard waste in our compost bin, and there's also a pile of leaves and grass clippings. (A few piles, actually. The property is too big to be toting the clippings all over when my husband is mowing over across the bridge and down the hill, for instance.) We just got a compost tumbler (anniversary present) to take some of the slowly-composting stuff from the big bin and to finish it off quickly (and use up the piles and barrels of browns we had left over from last fall. Most of which was still in our garden beds this spring.....never deadheading the lazy Susans, or clipping the dead & brown foliage of daylilies and Siberian irises, etc etc etc.) I'm just getting to some of the beds for the first time ever, and some of them (read, the whole beautiful terraced hillside filled with perrenials lovingly laid out) have never gotten any cursory attention (let alone TLC) since we moved in.

My kid was 6 months old, it was already fall, we were moving into a new HOUSE not just the property, and I'm not the most industrious person. That's a recipe for serious neglect. We've barely kept up with the mowing, sometimes.

Don't feel bad. All good things in all good time. And that includes fantasies about a veggie garden. There's still the future!

Originally Posted by teacup

At least composting is better than adding it to a landfill.

Loads better. And it will be there for you in the future, in whatever capacity. Even just laying down a mulch on much simplified beds, if your garden passion never again fully captures you.

[mattemma04]

I just started my 3rd compost pile,lol.The first one I started in October,and it has flowers in it now.The second one I just covered with a layer of dirt,and I plan to put some pumpkin and watermelon seeds there. I did put 2 potted evergreen bushes too.Poor things were so root bound they needed a place to breath till I can figure out where to put them. I bought soooo many seeds,and I don't know if I will ever get them going...but atleast I have my compost piles(and worms galore now for the toads)