A Composting We Will Go...

I've always wanted to start a compost pile. I know, weird thing to want to start, right? But the whole idea just seemed so cool to me. Recycle the stuff you don't eat, or that you'd normally toss, into soil, and then grow veggies or something with that soil. When the roommates moved in, Dig wanted to help with the backyard garden. Which was, at the time... dead.

So he dug out the garden, down to the sand about two feet down, and now we just have to fill it with good soil. So of course, somehow the idea of a composter came up. Now, I wanted one for a while. I mentioned one to the hubby when we bought the house. The idea got blown off and shoved aside. So when Dig mentioned it to me, I got all excited, then remembered how it went over before, and kind of clammed up. But, men seem to work in packs, because now that Dig was mentioning it, apparently it was a good idea.

Long story short, I got my composter. It's in the back yard, and has already got things in it. We have a small trash can I got at King Soopers for under $2 and we dump the stuff for the compost pile into that, and then when it's about half full, out if goes to the pile. Tea bags and veggie scraps are the current big thing on the pile, but as the weather starts to get colder I imagine tea bags will be replaced by coffee grounds.

Apparently there's this brown to green ratio that has to deal with nitrogen and carbon. We're still trying to get the right balance, but it seems the house produces more green waste than the yard produces brown waste. In any case, we're experimenting with the composter. It's a new toy, and it's one I wanted since I got into the whole pagan-hippie-tree-hugger kind of vibe. You know, that whole love mother earth and start doing things to help her. I really am excited that we have one. I just have to do research on what we can put into it that will help make better compost. Because eventually, that compost is going into that large hole in the garden to provide cool soil for home grown veggies. My tomato plants will be so happy. Which will make me happy.