Spring Clean-Up Beginnings - Ornamental Grasses In Our Compost Bin - March 2025
The last time I checked in our compost bins was late last Fall when I was filling the left bin (holding bin) with the last of the Fall leaves that dropped in our yard . At that time, the 3rd bin (the fully-mixed bin) was overloaded - above the top of the bin. That's because compaction occurs and that material will settle as it continues to decompose. The 'middle bin' was only half-way full and the last bin - on the left - which is the 'holding bin' was piled to the top of leaves. Over the past few months, some of that compaction occurred and the level of the leaves in the 'holding bin' dropped enough to allow for the addition of garden (and kitchen) waste. The past few days, I posted some photos of how we've begun to cleanup the backyard by taking down/clipping some grasses - Muhly Grasses , Karl Foerster Grasses and the little colony of Hellebores - where I took off last year's foliage . For each of those clean-ups, I brought the materia...