Guest post from Susan Schumacher.
Well, bears, skunks, prairie dogs, and bats do it, right? Let your compost hibernate for the winter.
Well, bears, skunks, prairie dogs, and bats do it, right? Let your compost hibernate for the winter.
I would love to be one of these
creatures that can stay warm and sleep all winter. But, that thing called
work/life gets in the way. One thing I don’t do in the winter is turn my
compost pile (OK, so I don’t use a bin and you don’t have to either. That aside,
the material is frozen anyway!)
Take all your compost goodies and freeze them in some sort
of re-sealable bag, plastic container, etc. Yes, I realize they will get
freezer burn but you weren’t going to eat it anyway. It’s much easier (and
warmer) for me to put the compost scraps in a plastic bag and throw in my
freezer.
Usually in February, there is a somewhat “warm” day that I
can tolerate the time it will take for me to be outside long enough to use my
pitchfork and lift up (or maybe I should say “pull the covers back” on) the
compost bed enough so I can throw the frozen banana peels, coffee grinds,
potato skins, apple cores, etc. into the center of the pile.
A lovely winter compost pile, but unfortunately it's not mine. Check out our friends at Organic Gardening 365. |
Once it finally turns spring, your pile will have a great head start to “working it’s magic” to create a beautiful lawn, flower garden, or vegetable garden (the food scraps from this will go where?).
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