On Sunday, May 12, 2013 8:30:06 PM UTC-7, Danny D wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2013 20:36:40 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:



Only if you really like exercise.



I have a lot of Spanish & Scotch Broom, which I pull out

(Scotch Broom) by the hundreds, and I cut & glyphosate

(Spanish Broom) by the scores; but I don't want to compost

that so I put them in the green recycling bins.



It takes a few months because each bin only holds about

an hour's worth of cuttings; yet I generally cut for

four or five hours at a time.



But, other than that, I don't have compost since I'm in

a windy location exposed to the Pacific Ocean winds, which

do all my leaf raking for me during the winter storms!







Of course, it all ends up in the pool ...

Maybe I did the wrong thing...but...a few years ago I dismantled my compost and
sold it on Craigs List. I hadn't really been keeping it up properly anyway. So when the City announced that they were now accepting food waste to incorporate into their (quarterly give-away compost events), I decided to go with that. I was surprised when the hand-out said that meat,fat,bones, etc. could be included, but when I called, they said that the compost was produced at such high temperatures that the no-no stuff was rendered harmless.

It's actually a nice community event; people line up in their cars with their bags, pails, other containers. When you get to the head of the line, you climb into a huge "bin" full of this lovely powdery compost, break out your shovel and load up.