cold composting - Commonweeder

Autumn Leaves into Cold Compost

Autumn leaves are falling. It is time to turn those leaves into ‘black gold’ known as cold compost, and improving our soil. It was not very long into my Heath…

Compost – Cold and Hot

Some people curse the falling leaves. Not me. Of course, since the wind blows all the leaves off my hill, the only labor I have is to collect the bags…

Trees, Leaves, Water and Magic – Compost

If you have trees you will have leaves in the fall. When you start raking it can look like an endless job, with very little payback. Not true. The truth…

Time to Compost – Harvest the Biomass on the Ground

As far as I am concerned the leaves that fall in the fall tra-la are as welcome as the flowers that bloom in the spring. When I lived high on…

Dear Friend and Gardener – June 8, 2014

Dear Friend and Gardener - I am going to have to go back a bit to give you the history of the 60 x 40 fenced Potager to explain why…

Spring Chores in the Garden

It is time to begin spring chores. But exactly how do we know when spring is beginning? A tough question. The only sure answer is that it did not begin…

Resolutions for a New Spring

Yesterday my earliest daffodils began to bloom - just in time for temperatures to plunge from their unseasonable summer highs. Nothing is certain in a garden. How many times do…

Vermicompost Harvest – Not!

I have been waiting for dependably w arm weather to harvest my worm compost, vermicompost. Composting worms cannot survive when temperatures go below 50 degrees. The weather has been so…