Since the ground is still too wet for any further planting out, today became "move all the compost mulch" day. We had enough of our own compost to manage doing about ¾ of the tomato plants. The rest will have to make do with grass clippings and shredded leaf mold as they become available. Weather continues to be cool and wet. At least the cabbage and lettuce likes it.
#gardening
#Allotment
#compost
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#tomato
@gardening

#goodnews #kids #business #goodearth #recycling #babies #mushrooms #plastic #waste #entrepreneurs #compost #hygiene #Austin #Texas

Packet of Fungi Inside New Diapers Breaks Them Down in Landfill Turning it to Mycelium

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/packet-of-fungi-inside-new-diapers-breaks-them-down-in-landfill-turning-it-to-mycelium/

Nouveau musée local, inauguré après un bon travail d'équipe sur nos quatre composteurs collectifs

#jardinage
Les surprises du #compost maison au moment des #semis.
La plupart du temps, j'ai une multitude de pousses de tomates et un ou deux cucurbitacées.
Cette année j'ai aussi une blette, et ce petit truc que je scrute depuis que je l'ai vu poindre.

Beware of "compostable" products that aren't actually compostable at home. In digging through my compost pile this week I unearthed 3 forks (from takeout food I purchased several years ago) that I think were made by the California-based company, Karat Earth (aka Lollicup). On Amazon and elsewhere the sentence the company uses in marketing is "simply toss the fork into a compost bin when finished." And the forks themselves have the text, "compostable" embossed on them. On company's own website, however, is a logo from the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) indicating, in a small font, that forks are "commercially compostable only," which means they only begin to break down at ~190 °F (88 °C). Somebody needs to file a class-action lawsuit to force greater transparency on marketing materials. #compost #composting #fork #takeout #food #psa #plastic #restaurants #greenwashing #polymer #corn #bioplastic

This weekend the #FediverseChicks have been "helping" me shuffle my compost heaps around (the middle one full of ready-to use compost went to the right, and the left one full of fresh compost then went to the middle)

The chicks loved every minute of it...

This week's contraption.

I do a LOT of soil sieving - in my work, large garden projects have soil removed/added by the lorry load, but with smaller ones, I'll bag it up and bring it home to be sieved, mixed with organic matter and then re-used elsewhere.

I'm also opening up the large 'compost' bins, which in reality are just aged cold piles of sticks, grass cuttings and chicken poo.

So it was a long overdue project to make a wheelbarrow frame for (much) quicker processing: the frame itself has a fixed one-inch mesh for initial sorting, and there's a removable half-inch mesh for finer grading afterwards.

Put about half a dumpy bag of waste soil through it yesterday, and will do about a cubic metre of compost today, mainly for throwing into the beds.

Should have done this AGES ago.

#Gardening
#Compost
#Chickens
#JoinIn

A record-breaking 3.8 million pounds of compost was collected in the second week of a new recycling mandate in New York City — a number so overwhelming that the city is opening a new site dedicated to the “black gold.” #nyc #compost #Recycling #environment #climate #ClimateChange #earth #food #waste #renewables #foodwaste

https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/04/new-york-city-begins-enforcing-mandatory-composting-to-cut-waste-and-emissions/

Déchets alimentaires : 50% des Français et Françaises ont désormais une solution pour trier leurs biodéchets (solution proposée par leur collectivité).

Le tri des biodéchets évite d'incinérer ou de mettre en décharge 900 00 tonnes par an. https://infos.ademe.fr/economie-circulaire-dechets/2025/un-an-apres-sa-mise-en-place-quel-bilan-peut-on-tirer-du-tri-a-la-source-des-biodechets/

Bonjour,
En retournant le #compost, j'ai trouvé 2 grosses #larve s comme celle de la photo ci-dessous. Je me demande quel #insecte ça pourrait être.
Peux-tu m'aider ?
(Ça se passe en moyenne Belgique)
#insect #insects #enthomology #enthomologie

Bokashi, le compost maison à la japonaise
A lire avant de choisir ce système !
https://reporterre.net/Bokashi-le-compost-maison-a-la-japonaise
#Ecologie #déchets #compost #Insoumis #GiletsJaunes

I've just mixed up the #compost heap a bit as there were some dry bits which didn't seem to be rotting down. Sorry, Worms! I didn't mean to disturb you. I'll let you get on with your magic now.

"The compost pile stands in productive contrast to a domestic order founded on the concealment of waste. We so rarely have to deal with our own shit, and this avoidance extends beyond sewage." @frasermacdonald for The London Review of Books

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/fraser-macdonald/on-compost

Del peligro de incendio al oro verde

Del peligro de incendio al oro verde
En los apacibles bosques del distrito de Nawalpur, en Nepal, se está produciendo una revolución que utiliza las herramientas más inverosímiles: trituradoras de ramas y pilas de compost. Un grupo de mujeres de Binayi Triveni está convirtiendo lo que antes era una de las mayores amenazas de la región en una prometedora oportun [...]

#Agricultura #Compost #FAO #Microorganismos #Mujeres #Mundo #Nepal

https://elmundo.cr/mundo/del-peligro-de-incendio-al-oro-verde/

I don't know what bothers me more:

my burning curiosity to know who receives the valuable #compost generated by my city's organic waste pickup program, or the awareness that "who's stealing my garbage??" was also the obsession of Tom Arnold's nitwit protagonist in the 1996 masterpiece "The Stupids".

Today, I saw something I'd never seen before.

Art made of compost.

It’s hard to explain... But it deeply inspired me. So much so, I had to write a blog post about it:

https://www.coreyartusimagery.com/musings/some-fun-organic-art-in-the-park

I will never look at mandalas the same way.

April 20, 2025. A good gardening day. Tomatoes and basil starts were potted up. We moved back leaf mulch and added compost to the onion rows, then planted Ruby Red onions. The Yellow Parma onions were planted yesterday. The free range earthworm numbers are good. The garden has been a no dig garden for 20 years. Southern Minnesota has a forecast of 25 mm of rain overnight. #minnesota, #zone4b, #growyouown, #gardening, #nodig, #compost.