Full Turning of 3-Bin Compost Pile - October 2024
It was just 12 days ago that I posted a Fall 2024 update on our compost bins. In that post, I showed the decomposition and compaction that had occurred over this season with all three bins just about leveling-out. The 'finished bin' was spilling material out and the 'hold' bin was (surprisingly) decomposing despite not being properly mixed. #14 on my 2024 to-do list was to 'keep going on compost' . And, over the past few months, we'd *mostly* done that. We were certainly ADDING to the bins, but when I did my September check-in on my list, I marked this one as 'incomplete' because I had NOT (yet) turned the bins over for the season . That changed this past weekend, when I went to work on all three bins plus our tumbler. I started by looking at the tumbler - where I found BLACK GOLD. I've emptied this tumbler each year after getting that lovely loam-y black gold. This year is no different. Below are a few photos showing the outp...