Compost needs paper

Do you shred? Great! 

Please save the shreds for our garden compost. 

Just drop your bag with shredded paper behind the driers. 

 

Thank you

COMPOST IS OPEN

PLEASE CHOP YOUR KITCHEN SCRAPS, especially hard stalks - COMBINE THEM WITH SHREDDED NEWSPAPER OR SHREDDED BROWN BAGS (about same volume as food scraps). THANKS

What GOES IN:

GREENS
(materials rich in nitrogen)

- fruit & vegetable scraps
- coffee grounds & tea bags
- manure & bedding from plant eating animals ONLY
- green plants
- garden trimmings
- fresh leaves & flowers
- grass clippings 

BROWNS
(materials rich in carbon)
 
- bread & grains
- egg shells
- nutshells
- corncobs
- food-soiled paper towels & napkins
- shredded newspaper
- fall leaves, twigs & woody prunings
- dry plant material
- straw & hay
- pine needles
- potting soil

what does NOT GO IN:

• meat or fish scraps
• cheese or dairy products
• fats, grease, or oil
• cat or dog feces; kitty litter
• colored or glossy paper
• sawdust made from pressure-treated plywood or lumber
• coal or charcoal ashes
• non-compostable materials such as plastic, metals, or glass
• pesticide-treated plants or pesticide-treated grass clippings
• diseased or pest-infested plants
• poison ivy
• invasive weeds
• weeds with seeds
• large branches (call 311 to schedule a special removal)
• non-compostable materials such as sand or construction debris



Thank you

COMPOST TIME! Yahi (rotate screen if reading on a smartphone)

Hi to all garden and compost lovers!

I hope everyone is doing well.

It feels like we’re heading towards a better season, hopefully in a broader sense.

What about celebrating by getting back to composting again?

In order to get the big black tumbler ready for new kitchen scraps, we need to harvest the mature compost sitting in it, sift it and store it for future use.

For those who have not done it before, we’ll use a shovel to pull out the mature compost, sift it through our large home made sieve, fill up some dedicated tote bins.

Arrange the bin for the new batch.

This operation takes altogether about 1 ½ hours. It needs two people

I am available

Saturday March 13 between 10:00 am and 1:00pm

Friday March 19 starting around 3:30pm 

Saturday March 20 am

Who can do with?

 

Please reply, ask questions or comments on this blog, in the "post a comment" section. 

Thank you 🌼🌼

Looking forward to it!

Claudia 

 

PS: we'll be wearing face masks and observing social distancing

 

Time to retire sun sails from the garden!

 As in every Fall, we need to take down the sun sails.

We need help to do it. If more of us show up, we can clean/tidy up the garden, too.

I'm suggesting Thu 24, Sat 26 or Sun 27 @ 11am.  

Who's in? What day?

 

COMPOST CLOSED - PLEASE TUMBLE IT

Thank you all for contributing your stinky kitchen scraps! Compost is very happy and ready to ripen. Please let it be.

DO NOT ADD any kitchen scraps or grass clipping or dead home plants, etc. TO THE COMPOST.

It needs TUMBLING, so please do it whenever you happen to go downstairs to check on your plants or to escape your apartment...

Forever dirt thanks you 👍🌼