William Bronson

Chickens are my favorite composting tool!
Seriously, they shred and turn many bags of leaves and hundreds of pounds of food scraps every year.

To turn their pile, and retrieve the finished compost I use a garden fork.
I only bought first garden fork not that long ago, now I have many
I think I now have more garden forks than I do shovels!

Most of the compost goes into buckets for transportation, which makes the humble bucket my third most used tool for composting.

Coming on a distant 4th place is the composting auger.
I have one for my dog poop bucket, and another at my sisters house.
Her compost is contained in a large commercially made residential compost and is almost entirely food scraps.
The "augur" we use there is a steel rod with two folding spurs that close when it's shoved into the pile and pop open when it's yanked out.
It's like blunt harpoon, and it does good job aerating the pile.

We have a growing population of "Lazarus" Lizards.
I think they are why we don't have more slugs than we do.

I think other inflexible, modular, biologically inert items might work as mulch.
Aluminum pans, or ceramic plates, for instance.
Aluminum flashing,would be more flexible but still ridgid by comparison to black plastic mulch.

Petrified hessian/ concreted burlap is another possibility for a ridgid mulch.

As the title says.
I have been thinking about trying this for quite some time.
My hesitation stemmed from a fear of creating habitat for slugs.
This bed kept drying out and ,Alliums are fairly slug resistant, so I tried it here.
I chose light colored tile, but I think I will blacken one side of each if I continue to use them.
The dark side will be for early spring and late fall.

In regards to inputs, I just recently garbage picked about 20 pounds of organic bananas.
We ate some and fed the rest to the chickens.

This is a fairly common find behind Trader Joe's or Aldi stores.
I was actually a little disappointed, as I was hoping for onions.
As it was I only took what was easy to grab.
There were also many  bags of lemons, but I have no use for them.
Getting nitrogen for the compost pile is easy if you garbage pick.

Well I swung by and harvested some of the beans.
I hope to plant them this fall and begin my landrace.
Thank you again for sharing this knowledge with me!

With no previous experience I was ready to dump these plants.
Now I know better,thank you!

We have pet rabbits, and plenty of burdock.
The Internet runs hot and cold on feeding rabbits burdock leaves, but roots are seeming just fine, a special treat even.

These bunnies get jchoke greens, mulberry, grape vine,comfrey, pear tree and lambs quarter, pretty regularly, so they can deal with "wild food".
I'm very careful about tossing them just any old weed- my wife LOVES them deeply.

Does anyone here feed their rabbits burdock?

I replaced the ones that didn't take.
I might add more to these buckets, or I might save room for other plants.
I have some favas co-planted  but they are annoyingly floppy.
I have some runner bean seed, and some elderberry for cuttings, also more walking onion bulbettes.

We let this crop continue hoping for a seed crop.
We have had a lot of rain, heat, and unusually cool periods.
Now it's started rotting, black spots everywhere.
I'll be cutting it out and composting it.

This is over at my "yarden".
I have 6 about totes with six or more nursery pots in each, lined along the fence.
The leaves in the bottom are all pretty much leaf mold at this point, but I added a lot of green leaves to it today.