I am also a lazy composter and I never get too worked up about how much green—broccoli, potato peels--- and how much brown---shredded paper, dried leaves—I have, and at what ratios. I just throw it in there and wait for the magic to happen.
And as a lazy composter I rarely—as in never—turn my pile. Every spring I lift my compost bin off of its current location and move it over a few feet. Then I shovel the top 1/3 of the pile—that’s the part that is still identifiable as potato peels or watermelon rinds—back into the bin where it continues to breakdown into the lovely, black magic that makes my plants leap skyward and burst into bloom.
One of the drawbacks of being a lazy composter is that my pile doesn’t quite get as hot as it really should. The side effect of this is, when I add my compost to my planting area, I’m likely to get random volunteer tomatoes sprouting in with whatever it is I have intentionally planted.
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| Random tomato plant |
It’s not a bad idea to avoid seeds of any kind in your compost pile, remember: In a tomato seed, out a tomato. That’s not a terrible side effect, having bonus tomatoes---and I once grew an accidental cantaloupe, which was kind of cool, once I figured out what the heck that scaly looking lump was in my flower bed--- but because of this I never—as in EVER—put dandelions or any noxious weed in my compost bin. In a dandelion, out 10,000 dandelions, and nobody wants that.
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| Note the Garden Fresh manicure |
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