Last year I was spending a lot of time outside preparing the garden in January and February, getting ready for spring. This year I haven't been out much at all. This year I'm working long hours as a nanny and preparing for Spring is on my back burner. I am looking forward to some garden time, though, in the next few months. It will be nice to get things cleaned up and seeds in the ground.
Today I want to share pictures of my compost bin, which was a project I did last spring/summer. There's some concern with attracting rats, so I made an enclosed structure so they can't get in.
Above image is construction part-way complete.
I mostly used materials laying around the yard, but Jacob and I picked up a few new boards for the front of the compost bin. They slide in and out, so they can be removed board by board and replaced board by board.
It's nice to know I will have some good rich decomposed compost to mix into my garden soil this spring! I used a pitchfork to turn the compost over quite a bit through the summer and fall, though I haven't been out as much in the cold of winter. Receiving over-ripe produce and grass clippings etc. from my local community has boosted the content I had to process through my three bins, and quite a bit of it was already 90% decomposed by the time I let it be to winter quietly. It will be fun to see how much progress it's made come spring! Of course it won't decompose as fast without being mixed up, but it's sure to have broken down at least a little bit on its own. Nature is an ever-working process.
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