Ruth Stout style composting (2 spots) - PEP BB gardening.sand.RuthStout

I'm house-sitting here and some of these garden beds are sitting dry. I've already been having a go at Ruth Stouting a bit in the bed pictured. For this BB submission I added some extra substantial loads, plus an extra gallon in a totally different area of the property. What was dry powder before now has worms crawling. The aim is to leave the beds better than I found them without outside inputs - just organic matter from the kitchen and garden.

Will add another set of photos for certification when feasible, i just did the other half and didn't take the proper photos so this first set will have to do for now.

Here's my 2 five gallon bucket Ruth Stout submission

2 bucket of 5gallons from my canning bb and a corn roast.

So for this BB I need to do some explaining. I attempted this with the 5 gallon bucket, however I live alone and could not produce enough organic material before it turned into mush. I believe that as a single person, even one who eats from home almost every night, I needed to reduce the size and repetitions of my compost bucket as filling 2 5 gallon buckets by person is not feasible.

So for this BB I used a roughly 1.25 gallon container as my compost bin. I had to do 12 repetitions of this BB in order to make the 10 gallon quota. The reason I did 12 is because the first two fill ups I had were only about .75 gallons full and I wanted to make sure I got this bb covered.  I had two mint plants that I used as the two spots to compost and cover. I apologize in advance for the massive amount of pictures. In an effort to avoid a colossal amount of pics, I will be adding only a few to show the two spots where everything was dumped and covered. I have more photos of stuff covered/ uncovered that I can add if needed.

I did this Ruth Stout style composting project at Wheaton Labs when I was there for SKIP camp in July 2022.

I put the compost in the mulched hugel beds around the Fisher Price house with compost from the metal buckets in the kitchen and classroom area. They are 3-gallon buckets, so it took nearly 3 and a half buckets to get to the full 10 gallons.

Note: I'm a bit frustrated with the pictures, because the way the buckets flare out, a picture taken from directly above exaggerates how much space there is from the top of the contents to the rim of the bucket. In other words, they were a bit fuller than they look. Three of them were basically full--not to overflowing, but as near to the rim as reasonable--and one of them was a little over half full.

Here are my photos of each bucket with the hole in the mulch where I'll put the compost, followed by the empty bucket and the mulch mounded back over the compost I'd added.

Many thanks!