Dormant Compost Bins Check-In - January 2026
The compost bins were filled up this Fall. Sort-of. Or...I suppose it is better to say that they were filled up *partially*. The last time I checked-in on the bins was in August of 2025 . At that time, I mentioned that I still needed to 'turn' the bins over for the season. However...I never was able to get to that job this Summer/Fall. I also have - either through sheer laziness or genuine desire to improve the soil conditions - been adopting (to a greater degree than in the past) the whole 'leave the leaves' mentality to Fall cleanup. Combine that approach with the super-early and heavy snowfall we had that cut Fall short, there are still tons of brown leaves scattered in our beds and on our lawn. Despite that, when I look at the photo of the bins below, I see plenty of leaves that I piled in this season. Both in the holding bin on the left and the mixed bin in the middle. That comes back to the lack-of-turning tha...