Sheila attempts drunken composting

I dunno if drunken composting could do this… but (hic) who cares?

This is amusing:

I have a large compost tumbler which we purchased at Tractor Supply last summer.  I put it right outside our back patio door so that it’s easily accessible to dump our kitchen scraps into.  I have to admit, it isn’t working quite as well or as fast as I had hoped.  It makes kind of a goopy slimy mess.  No resemblance of “soil” in the least.  I’ve been using this two ways – either I dump it in a pile and work it into a patch of crap soil, or I put a good lump into a 5 gallon bucket, add water, and let it fester for a week and use for “compost tea”.  As I’m making the compost in the tumbler, I top each dump of kitchen scraps with a like amount of leaves, which are always within reach thanks to our tropical almond trees.  So the wetness is a mystery.  I guess I’ll have to ask hubby to drill holes in the bottom, as he suggested.

So I did a little experiment today making compost in piles.  I used the “drunken compost” method…

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