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Notes and links from Thurs 23 April: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/04/23/notes-and-links-from-thurs.html
I had a thought about managing the #compost at the allotment so sent it to my sister who suggested we meet up there and have a chat about it. Which turned into actioning the plan and emptying one full bay into another. Lucy did most of the work but I couldn't help getting a bit involved (this was my big passion pre-CFS!) and we'll see if I overdid it or managed it well.
The compost it looking good considering it's missing a lot of the food inputs I used to get from friends and Loaf so is mainly rabbit poop and hay alongside the usual allotment detritus. Some patches at the bottom were a bit anaerobic and stinky but that's to be expected.
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Thinking about compost, I realise that like outdoor drying I learned this from my mum, and passed it on to my kids.
But two have now moved into apartment rentals and can’t compost.
I’d really love to see more effective Council or communal composting in urban areas.
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Notes from Monday 2 February: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/02/02/notes-from-monday-february.html
Lucy came over this afternoon and we took all the compostables to the allotment. This included a drop-off from another rabbit-caring friend who saves up their poop and pissy hay for us, so we actually have a glut at the moment.
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Compost Heat Recovery Webinar with Gaelan Brown
Living Web Farms
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Hey #compostodon and #compost nerds - I'm working with a nature charity on their #composting next week.
They have a lot of woody material but no chipper (though might be able to befriend an arborist). We're going to look at ways around that and so far I've got the following ideas:
- Dead hedges: let it rot naturally in a way that helps wildlife.
- Biochar: would need to build a retort but could be a good activity.
- Hugelmound: probably not as they don't grow much.What have I missed?
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It is nearly two years since I last tooted about my #vermicompost bin. There are simple reasons for this: the system stabilized, I got used to it, and other matters in life distracted me from writing about it. There is, however, a recent development that warrants another update. In short, ... *takes a deep breath*... I feel disappointed by my own #design and I want a different bin. Let's explore this. 🧵🔽
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Look at this little knapweed bloom I found. In November. Under a pile of yard debris that has been there since midsummer.
This is why these guys are noxious. They are the life that finds a way.
(The pile is now in compost.)
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What a good question. It’s probably about hashtagS, and labelling of what the practice is. Knitters knit etc.
Now I’m curious to know what others find helpful. I follow people more than hashtags, and then when I find someone’s making something I notice if they’re sharing it to a hashtag and I’ll amble in that direction.
#compostodon for people making something of waste is one you might not think of. And I notice the makers of #solarpunk and the #visiblemending community.
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Re that last boost on finding experts near you, @bonni208 mentions finding the #compostodon community here, and this got me thinking about how we become each other’s counsel in all sorts of practical ways. Relational expertise: not just credentials in the knowing sense, but credibility in the trusted sense.
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Deurtje van de compostbak open. Mooie dwarsdoorsnede!
Bak 3 is nu moestuinbed.
Bak 2 is naar bak 3
Bak 1 kijk je naar. Die gaat in 2. -
The Aerobic Digest is back! https://the.aerobicdigest.email/p/the-aerobic-digest-14-electric-compost-battery-test
After an enforced break I’ve figured out how to write my #composting newsletter again.
This issue: community composting in Birmingham and Machynlleth, a compost-powered computer in Manchester and a dead hedge.
Hope you enjoy it!
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Our thuja trees are relentless. Every year, without fail, they produce a crapton of leaves(?), seeds, and other assorted stuff. We use it as cover around bushes etc. as it's free and our dog doesn't eat it. But I will soon have a third filled compost heap and no more places to put it.
I have pleaded, but the trees won't listen. How can the shedding never end? Where does it all come from???
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Our thuja trees are relentless. Every year, without fail, they produce a crapton of leaves(?), seeds, and other assorted stuff. We use it as cover around bushes etc. as it's free and our dog doesn't eat it. But I will soon have a third filled compost heap and no more places to put it.
I have pleaded, but the trees won't listen. How can the shedding never end? Where does it all come from???
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Our thuja trees are relentless. Every year, without fail, they produce a crapton of leaves(?), seeds, and other assorted stuff. We use it as cover around bushes etc. as it's free and our dog doesn't eat it. But I will soon have a third filled compost heap and no more places to put it.
I have pleaded, but the trees won't listen. How can the shedding never end? Where does it all come from???
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Our thuja trees are relentless. Every year, without fail, they produce a crapton of leaves(?), seeds, and other assorted stuff. We use it as cover around bushes etc. as it's free and our dog doesn't eat it. But I will soon have a third filled compost heap and no more places to put it.
I have pleaded, but the trees won't listen. How can the shedding never end? Where does it all come from???
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Our thuja trees are relentless. Every year, without fail, they produce a crapton of leaves(?), seeds, and other assorted stuff. We use it as cover around bushes etc. as it's free and our dog doesn't eat it. But I will soon have a third filled compost heap and no more places to put it.
I have pleaded, but the trees won't listen. How can the shedding never end? Where does it all come from???
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Compost worms are aquatic!
This is (I believe) an Eisenia foetida (red wiggler compost worm) living in the soil and gravel substrate of a fish aquarium I set up a couple of months ago. It is fully submerged with no direct access to the atmosphere!
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Updating my #introduction to celebrate changed balance of life things. I live and walk by the sea in Wollongong, and I’m a gardener. In 2025 I joined up with a small organisation focused on compassionate ways of working in healthcare. I’ve been on here since 2016 and I’m still here, listening and thinking.
I believe we have to work together differently to face the future we’re facing. Life is fragile.
#compostodon #TransRights #SafeWork #CoDesign and curious about most things
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Updating my #introduction to celebrate changed balance of life things. I live and walk by the sea in Wollongong, and I’m a gardener. In 2025 I joined up with a small organisation focused on compassionate ways of working in healthcare. I’ve been on here since 2016 and I’m still here, listening and thinking.
I believe we have to work together differently to face the future we’re facing. Life is fragile.
#compostodon #TransRights #SafeWork #CoDesign and curious about most things
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Updating my #introduction to celebrate changed balance of life things. I live and walk by the sea in Wollongong, and I’m a gardener. In 2025 I joined up with a small organisation focused on compassionate ways of working in healthcare. I’ve been on here since 2016 and I’m still here, listening and thinking.
I believe we have to work together differently to face the future we’re facing. Life is fragile.
#compostodon #TransRights #SafeWork #CoDesign and curious about most things
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Updating my #introduction to celebrate changed balance of life things. I live and walk by the sea in Wollongong, and I’m a gardener. In 2025 I joined up with a small organisation focused on compassionate ways of working in healthcare. I’ve been on here since 2016 and I’m still here, listening and thinking.
I believe we have to work together differently to face the future we’re facing. Life is fragile.
#compostodon #TransRights #SafeWork #CoDesign and curious about most things
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Updating my #introduction to celebrate changed balance of life things. I live and walk by the sea in Wollongong, and I’m a gardener. In 2025 I joined up with a small organisation focused on compassionate ways of working in healthcare. I’ve been on here since 2016 and I’m still here, listening and thinking.
I believe we have to work together differently to face the future we’re facing. Life is fragile.
#compostodon #TransRights #SafeWork #CoDesign and curious about most things
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Did someone say "Compost"?
If anyone is interested. This is Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Do share if you think anyone in your extended networks may also be interested
#compost
#compostodon
#wormfarm
#vermiculture
#bokashi
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One of the fascinating things about compost worms (Eisenia foetida) is that they don't actually eat living plant tissue. Instead they savor the brown rotty stuff that forms on decaying plant and animal tissues.
I've seen worms reach up to damaged leaves and pull them down to the soil to clean them up and have a snack. I'm trying to say: they're gardeners. They keep the garden tidy (at their scale) and healthy.
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we’re confident that our biggest issue in our #garden this year was lack of organic matter in our beds (since this was our first year #gardening and we didn’t have any #compost to start off with).
to address this, we’re trying a few different things:
- a tumbling composter primarily for kitchen scraps (mixed with various brown material)
- mesh composters filled with invasive/exotic plants, hay, leaves, and used hemp bedding, in layers
- an old plastic composter that i neglected last year, to be left open over winter to finish decomposing
- “chop and drop” on some of our beds#compost enthusiasts: i’d be so grateful for your thoughts! does this seem like a sensible approach to maximize compost for next year? we live in a temperate climate where it doesn’t remain below freezing for long
boosts encouraged!
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we’re confident that our biggest issue in our #garden this year was lack of organic matter in our beds (since this was our first year #gardening and we didn’t have any #compost to start off with).
to address this, we’re trying a few different things:
- a tumbling composter primarily for kitchen scraps (mixed with various brown material)
- mesh composters filled with invasive/exotic plants, hay, leaves, and used hemp bedding, in layers
- an old plastic composter that i neglected last year, to be left open over winter to finish decomposing
- “chop and drop” on some of our beds#compost enthusiasts: i’d be so grateful for your thoughts! does this seem like a sensible approach to maximize compost for next year? we live in a temperate climate where it doesn’t remain below freezing for long
boosts encouraged!
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we’re confident that our biggest issue in our #garden this year was lack of organic matter in our beds (since this was our first year #gardening and we didn’t have any #compost to start off with).
to address this, we’re trying a few different things:
- a tumbling composter primarily for kitchen scraps (mixed with various brown material)
- mesh composters filled with invasive/exotic plants, hay, leaves, and used hemp bedding, in layers
- an old plastic composter that i neglected last year, to be left open over winter to finish decomposing
- “chop and drop” on some of our beds#compost enthusiasts: i’d be so grateful for your thoughts! does this seem like a sensible approach to maximize compost for next year? we live in a temperate climate where it doesn’t remain below freezing for long
boosts encouraged!
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we’re confident that our biggest issue in our #garden this year was lack of organic matter in our beds (since this was our first year #gardening and we didn’t have any #compost to start off with).
to address this, we’re trying a few different things:
- a tumbling composter primarily for kitchen scraps (mixed with various brown material)
- mesh composters filled with invasive/exotic plants, hay, leaves, and used hemp bedding, in layers
- an old plastic composter that i neglected last year, to be left open over winter to finish decomposing
- “chop and drop” on some of our beds#compost enthusiasts: i’d be so grateful for your thoughts! does this seem like a sensible approach to maximize compost for next year? we live in a temperate climate where it doesn’t remain below freezing for long
boosts encouraged!
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we’re confident that our biggest issue in our #garden this year was lack of organic matter in our beds (since this was our first year #gardening and we didn’t have any #compost to start off with).
to address this, we’re trying a few different things:
- a tumbling composter primarily for kitchen scraps (mixed with various brown material)
- mesh composters filled with invasive/exotic plants, hay, leaves, and used hemp bedding, in layers
- an old plastic composter that i neglected last year, to be left open over winter to finish decomposing
- “chop and drop” on some of our beds#compost enthusiasts: i’d be so grateful for your thoughts! does this seem like a sensible approach to maximize compost for next year? we live in a temperate climate where it doesn’t remain below freezing for long
boosts encouraged!
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Enjoying watching my little colony of paper wasps doing their thing at my front door.
More wasps = less bugs and grubs.
Not 100% but think these are Ropalidia Revolutionaris
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My no-dig veg beds are finally getting properly established at Woodlands Hall. My soil is beautiful under the cardboard and compost mulch layer...and the Trifolium incarnatum looks gorgeous. Bumbles are very pleased with me too. #regenerative #organic #ukgardens #greenmanure #compostodon #nodig #vegetablegardening
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My no-dig veg beds are finally getting properly established at Woodlands Hall. My soil is beautiful under the cardboard and compost mulch layer...and the Trifolium incarnatum looks gorgeous. Bumbles are very pleased with me too. #regenerative #organic #ukgardens #greenmanure #compostodon #nodig #vegetablegardening
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My no-dig veg beds are finally getting properly established at Woodlands Hall. My soil is beautiful under the cardboard and compost mulch layer...and the Trifolium incarnatum looks gorgeous. Bumbles are very pleased with me too. #regenerative #organic #ukgardens #greenmanure #compostodon #nodig #vegetablegardening
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My no-dig veg beds are finally getting properly established at Woodlands Hall. My soil is beautiful under the cardboard and compost mulch layer...and the Trifolium incarnatum looks gorgeous. Bumbles are very pleased with me too. #regenerative #organic #ukgardens #greenmanure #compostodon #nodig #vegetablegardening
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My no-dig veg beds are finally getting properly established at Woodlands Hall. My soil is beautiful under the cardboard and compost mulch layer...and the Trifolium incarnatum looks gorgeous. Bumbles are very pleased with me too. #regenerative #organic #ukgardens #greenmanure #compostodon #nodig #vegetablegardening
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Harold the Barrel is celebrating #CompostWeek and encourages you all to get out there and
☀️ 🌱 💚 Make Compost 💚 🌱 ☀️
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Does anyone have experience with #humanure processing?
We're weighing the pros and cons of #biogas digestion and typical turn-heavy aerobic #composting. Also thinking about a combination of the two but going from anaerobic to aerobic processing could create more labor. -
Started today and remembered your post:
This is what I use for sifting compost: a simple old window grille does the job.
#compost #composting #garden #gardening #compostodon #reuserecycle
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#compost in #brussels #brussel #schaarbeek #schaerbeek eerste tamisage van de saison! #compostodon
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@compost Some #Maine municipalities offer programs where one can purchase composters (and rainbarrels), and pick them up locally. They do ship out, but there are shipping charges. I use two Earth Machines -- one that I let percolate, the other for fresher green waste.
Maine Resource Recovery Association
#BackyardComposting Supplies
- Earth Machine
80 gallon composting bin that converts, grass, leaves, and table scraps into an abundant supply of rich garden soil.
- Compost Cart
40 Liter wheeled cart for storing food scraps. Perfect for Transfer Station composting programs.
- Lobster Trap Composter
Available in both a 3 and 4 foot size. Ideal for grass clippings, leaves, garden and food scraps. Comes with rings to assemble. Hog ring pliers are also available to order. MADE IN MAINE.
- REOTEMP Thermometer
Designed with a 20 inch stem this device is perfect for monitoring the interior temperature of your compost.
- Rain Barrel
55 gallon capacity, collects rain water for your garden.
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Flush toilet in the bathroom like normal drains to a IBC tote of compost worms. No fuss, no pathogens, no problem.
> vermicomposting flush toilets – on-site processing of domestic sewage with worms. ... based on open source principles with non-proprietary technology and low cost components, many of which can be sourced from existing waste streams.
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🧵 Nine months in, I'm sure that my self-built vertical flow-through worm bin 🪱 does not settle by itself, or at least, not fast enough.
After a harvest, there is a void in the bottom of the bin. Some worm castings fall down from the bottom surface of the bin contents, so there is a little pile of castings when I detach the bottom dish on the next harvest. However, the bulk of the bin contents does not seem to sink much and the top surface keeps slowly rising.
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@compost The compost is an awsom firtilazer #compostodon #wormodon
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I had a small bin with a colony of Eisenia foetida in it, and I had some woodchips with some chicken poop in, primo worm food. So I took a bucket and layered the worm soil and woodchips in it about 2/3 full and covered it with 4cm of loose leaf litter. Presto! With just a modicum of attention the worms will produce the finest of soils and more worms quietly and unassumingly. They are as gentle as the rain and as relentless as the Terminator.
