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Post by binnylou on Jun 26, 2024 23:58:25 GMT -5
When I emptied the kitchen compost bucket yesterday, I found things growing. Food things. Food things, that, if left to grow, might produce better than what the garden is doing this year. What’s growing in your compost pile?
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Post by pondgardener on Jun 27, 2024 7:10:55 GMT -5
I ran out of space for 5 tomato starts, so after I spied the compost piles in the back, I stuck them in there. So far they are doing great, as the pile is not very active. And my wife decided she wanted some melons, I helped her plant a few seeds and they are hanging in there as well.
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Post by madamezil on Jun 27, 2024 7:51:47 GMT -5
Actually had a huge pile of mushrooms. Not sure where they came from  but threw them away just to be on the safe side. |
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Post by datgirl on Jun 27, 2024 8:50:47 GMT -5
There's a few onions sprouting out there now along with the potatoes. Eventually there will be a bunch of tomato babies. I don't rescue those because they are late in the season when I start processing the ripe tomatoes and throw the seeds and skins in the compost pile.
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Post by desertwoman on Jun 27, 2024 9:15:24 GMT -5
Can't quite tell yet.I think it's potato- two of them. But having never grown potatoes I'm not quite sure.The little plants resemble tomatoes but they are different enough to make me wonder if they are taters instead.
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Post by emmsmommy on Jun 29, 2024 10:48:03 GMT -5
Beans and they're just about ready to pick!
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Post by binnylou on Jun 29, 2024 10:58:38 GMT -5
Can’t forget the weeds.
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Post by Mumsey on Jun 29, 2024 17:18:24 GMT -5
Volunteer tomatoes under the tumbler bin. I think they come out with moisture when I turn the bin. They and weeds love the drippings.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 29, 2024 18:09:25 GMT -5
The soil beneath your tumbler must be some mighty good stuff, Mumsey. |
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Post by Tomato Z on Jul 1, 2024 6:58:07 GMT -5
Lettuce, volunteers
Bindweed, a bane of my gardens at home
A few iris, probably white
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Post by binnylou on Jul 20, 2024 19:06:51 GMT -5
Something with huge leaves…probably pie pumpkins. Whatever it is has taken over the unfinished compost pile, along with a volunteer potato.
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Post by emmsmommy on Jul 28, 2024 11:54:33 GMT -5
Those ground squirrel beans threw out a few black speckled seeds and I wondered if I had an unintentional cross. Contacted the seller and he said it happens every once in a while and that he'd actually grew them on trying to stabilize it without much luck. Guess what I'll be growing next year.
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Post by Mumsey on Aug 3, 2024 5:38:27 GMT -5
Not in the compost pile, but definitely a derivative of compost! I see a vine, probably cantaloupe, climbing a tomato plant. Blossoms on it.
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