Happy Earth Day

That seems like a weird thing to say. But Merry Earth Day and Felicitous Earth Day sound only marginally better than Earth Day Greetings. So we're just going to go with Happy Earth Day.

And it is a happy time. I try to live moderately green--I buy local, grow many of my own vegetables, recycle. My hormones are doing their part to make sure I don't crank the furnace in the winter time. And, if you'll remember, I compost.

I've been filling my composter with coffee grounds, potato peels, corn husks, leaves, egg shells, and all kinds of other vegetable crap for a year now. My plan was to have some nice juicy fresh compost to use in this year's garden. Unfortunately, I learned the lesson of critical mass a little too late.

It seems you have to have enough stuff in your composter to weigh down on itself and create heat. And I don't think I had nearly enough. So, I added some other lawn waste (grass, crunched up twigs, and more leave that I had piled at the base of my tree to protect it in the winter), and hopefully I will still see some compost come out of that bin this summer.