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My compost is so hot...

15 years ago

...it eats peach pits! I was screening compost today on 1/4" hardware cloth wire, and as I was rubbing the compost over the wire, I realized that the roundish lump that was breaking up into punky bits and crumbling through the mesh was a peach pit. A short while later, another one disintegrated. Of course, it has taken about a year and a half of constantly throwing the pits back into the bin, and I had to toss a couple dozen back in... but at least now I know that in 10 years I won't be knee deep in the darn things! I'm a compost goddess, baby! :-)

--Maureen

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maryrecord
15 years ago
I baked a potato...
ceth_k
15 years ago
maryrecord you did not! I meant really?
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gargwarb
15 years ago
I smelted iron.
robertz6
15 years ago
...
that Pons and Fleischman got excited about cold fusion
Lloyd
15 years ago
...that gliders use the resulting thermals for lift.

;-)

Lloyd
darth_weeder
15 years ago
Al Gore had me arrested for being the main cause of global warming.

and garbwarb, what did it smelt like?
maryrecord
15 years ago
Well it looked like it was baked and not rotten. I didn't check it out that close. LOL I had forgotten that I tossed it in there. I don't think it necessarily means that my pile was super hot. It was just hot enough for a few days to do the work.
piranhafem
Original Author
15 years ago
LOL, I only thought I was a compost goddess. I bow to the true deities of rot!

--Maureen
momstar
15 years ago
okay, I'll bite..

How hot is it? *rimshot*

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