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Shredding A Few Excess Plants
I am limited in what I can compost here because I only have space for a small tumbling composter. That takes care of all of our household kitchen scraps and some of the garden waste. Tumbling composters don’t get hot enough to kill weed seeds, so there are some times when I will discard plant Continue reading
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Mushroom Blocks As Compost
The Central Texas Mycological Society is a group dedicated to working with fungi, which are so important for the health, stability, and abundance of soil, plants, and fresh water. One of the things that this group does is to divert used compost blocks from mushroom farmers into the community so that people can grow their Continue reading
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Giving The Pollinator Garden A Soil Boost
The soil around this newly built house is very poor quality and it will take years to make it more healthy. Where possible, I am adding organic matter and choosing plants and gardening strategies that should help with this process. One of the few places that has received no help from me so far is Continue reading
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Shredded Cardboard As Compost Browns
When I started making compost here last year, at first it didn’t work. Eventually I got one successful batch by using an added compost starter and keeping it more wet than I had been doing. That batch of compost was certainly usable (I put it around my trees), but it was rather wet and sticky. Continue reading
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Composting Progress
In October 2023 I wrote about how the first few months of composting had not gone well. I use a small dual-chamber tumbling composter, and my first loads had merely dried out without evidence of decay or reduction in volume. I emptied the composter then and started again, this time paying more attention to not Continue reading
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Composting Is Not Working Well
In March 2023 I got a tumbling compost bin with dual chambers similar to the one I had in Houston. It took a few weeks to fill one of the chambers with compostable waste, and I also included several handfuls of store-bought compost. Then I left that chamber to “cook” while I filled the other Continue reading
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“State Of The Garden” After Six Months
In February 2023 we moved to a new developer lot in Seguin, Texas, USA. The front yard had Bermudagrass sod, two Live Oak trees, and a bed in front of the house with fairly standard landscaper plants. The back yard was empty except for Bermudagrass sod. My overall goals here are to develop a balanced Continue reading
About Me
Nature Lover.
Inquisitive Observer.
Student Gardener.
I invite you to join me on my journey to convert my sterile (from a nature point of view) new house lot to a healthy and diverse ecosystem, as I make discoveries, mistakes, and hopefully progress. I am not an expert or professional. The project started in February 2023 and the location is Seguin, Texas, USA.
Rewilding My Lot 