We’re getting ready for the dry, windy fall weather here by having all 20 of our huge trees trimmed on Monday. They’ll be here all day making noise and a mess, but with the fire season coming on, it’s important to have the brush, leaves, detritus and dry limbs trimmed so they aren’t broken off by the high winds. Since we have a wood burning hot tub, we ask them to leave the smaller branches.
We have a compost box that we use to refill the garden areas, we put in the cuttings from the salad vegetables, and sometimes when I empty out the melon seeds, I get what I call “freebies” in the spring. The soil from the compost box will often sprout tomatoes, melons and potatoes once we spread it in the garden!
BTW, I found a cool new website at Earth911.com that has recycling information on garden composting, paper, metal, hazardous waste, plastic, glass, electronics waste, automotive, household and construction materials.
A recent article on the website reported that researchers have “found a species of earthworm to be productive in converting the huge volumes of solid sludge produced by the textiles industry into compost”! See what human ingenuity can discover once we put our minds to it?
