Mid-Atlantic Gardening: 2009 Gardening Year Highlights, 0 by Karldan

Karldan wrote:
Compost my dear! Everything organic goes on the pile except for disease carriers like tomato plants (virus) and canna stalks (leaf rollers). Here you see already rich black muck, (and a crab shell, this year was an especially crabby year). I lost count of the 5 gallon bucketsfulls of compost I spread last year, over 500 gallons, all for free. Grass clippings (but not from "chem-lawn" lawns,) autumn leaves, hedge clippings, even large branches which soon get covered with fungus and break apart. My pile is a favorite hangout for blue tailed skinks who also patrol the garden for insects.