All I wanted was a bit of compost. Instead, this truck backed up to our driveway and dumped a huge pile. I had to get creative, so I built a long hill for potatoes that I had never intended to plant. I formed a trench down the middle of the hill, then planted it with […]
In case you haven’t noticed, soil is one of my favorite subjects. The greatest event that takes place in our garden is not the vegetable harvest at the end of the season, but the day our food scraps and dried leaves and coffee grounds transform from “waste” into new soil, or what we call “compost.” […]
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I was involved in a fascinating conference call this week discussing the possibility of D.C. schools turning their food wastes into compost we gardeners can use rather than sending it to a landfill. Composting food scraps from schools is foreseen in the “Healthy Schools” legislation pending before the D.C. Council. But apparently Chartwells, the contracted […]
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