Bugs, flowers, osage, compost

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Osage that I planted. It's maybe 10' tall- but sprouting like mad this year. Check the thorns- Biblical
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Florida weave tomatoes- just added compost
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There was talk about compost piles. Here's my simple method- take a length of green wire garden fence, turn it in a circle, connect the ends, fill it up. When you want to turn it, unhook the fence, move it a couple feet, and fork the pile back in. When you uinwrap it you get a big compost puck that stays together. I don't bother turning- I use it half finished (to upset people that say you shouldn't). I just strip off the top and sides and throw them back in to cook along with obvious chicken bones etc.

If it once lived- I compost it.
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To connect the ends, I don't leave wire tags. I used to, but kept getting scratched, so I just jam a stick in there between wires.
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The pics are awesome on my IPAD!
 
You're having way too much macro fun. ;lol
 
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that's what I use for compost pile - 25 feet
so 2 bins from a fifty foot roll

they can dry out though, so I try to have the sides higher than the middle so rain water collects

I have concrete blocks and pallets, too


only thing I don't put in is wild onions and sorrel
 
that's what I use for compost pile - 25 feet
so 2 bins from a fifty foot roll

they can dry out though, so I try to have the sides higher than the middle so rain water collects

I have concrete blocks and pallets, too


only thing I don't put in is wild onions and sorrel

I can understand why! All the fats, meats, cheese they say not to compost is really no problem if you have a serious hot cycle going. I've composted whole woodchucks, squirrels, and remains after butchering a small deer.
 
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Thanks Scotty- I like seeing the hairs on its legs.

Since I was having too much macro fun, I thought I'd play with the crazy zoom too. I should play with settings and use a tripod next time. I was getting eaten alive tonight taking these outside in my skivvies.


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WHITE OAK! Great shots of the moon too! (No I ain't talking about the one in your skivvies either)!
 
Yeah that may have done it. Sure looks like a white oak to me though!
 
@ the 3:00 position you can just see the sunlight glinting off the top of the Alien Moondome, normally not very visible from Earth. You must be using large format film to take such big pictures ;)
 
Love the pics. Thanks for sharing.
 
I can understand why! All the fats, meats, cheese they say not to compost is really no problem if you have a serious hot cycle going. I've composted whole woodchucks, squirrels, and remains after butchering a small deer.
That big? Hmmmm, I'll have to remember that.

I'm running out of freezer space and the dump has cameras now.
 
Adios...What camera are you shooting with (I am sure this is posted somewhere, but I must have missed it))?? Awesome closeups and distant shots. Thanks for sharing!
 
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