https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here is a way to compost without using a compost pile. Use earth worms to turn the compost!

Thanks for linking.
I feel almost guilty not using my compost bins since converting over to spot composting, chop and drop and using shredded leaves for mulch.

Maybe you could sell them at a yard sale? Im adding my rabbit droppings this week end to next year's berry patch.

Oh - my bins are homemade from salvaged chain link from an old dog run we had. More trouble to take down and not sure I'd have any takers. I'll keep them just in case. Maybe a giant hugel bed...

I like the idea of a giant hugel bed!

It does sound convenient, doesn't it? I don't know what I'd grow in it as it's at the very back corner of the yard in my shady "wild" area where woods ferns abound. Probably couldn't grow edibles there - too much shade and it's along the path that the racoons take once they've crawled under the fence.

Rather than make a compost pile, I compost and mulch right on top of my fruit trees. It ;provides nutrition and keeps weed down.

I started placing manure around bananas and that fixed nutritional problems from high rainfall.

Rather than make a compost pile, I compost and mulch right on top of my fruit trees. It ;provides nutrition and keeps weed down.

I started placing manure around bananas and that fixed nutritional problems from high rainfall.

I am using more of the chop and drop method as well as spot composting in the beds. Larger oak tree limbs though tend to go in a big pile at the back of the yard. It's either cutting them into smaller pieces for a hugel bed or hauling out the big wood chipper.

Salvaged chain link! Some one has smashed my back fence and is stealing the rails. Maybe thats what they are doing with it.

Wow - first time I've heard of thieves taking chain link posts and rails. Sorry to hear of it.

I forget whether it was NCIS or Adam-12 where thieves stole the security cameras out of a parking garage.

One of them crossed out "IS" and wrote in "WAS"

"THIS GARAGE IS WAS PROTECTED BY VIDEO SURVEILLANCE."

I was going to suggest that it might be interesting to focus a security camera on that disappearing fence to see if the thieves would come back for more but maybe not.

security camera? Is there a battery operated one? Yesterday I found more of the rails pulled out and laying over in the neighbor's yard, as if they were stacking them up for someone to come and pick them up.

What about those motion-activated cameras that are used to capture video of wild life? Surely they can't need an electric cord to operate.

Ill check it out. I hope they are not too expensive, because its a set-up for a stolen camera! Thanks for the suggestion, shadegardener.

hazelnut - hope you're having luck finding a camera. Have you filed a report the police? Is the cost enough that you'd consider filing an insurance claim?

I dont have property insurance because of the tornadoes. Yes. filed with the police, that didnt stop the neighbors pulling the rails out of the fence. We are having flooding here, so I didn't go out shopping. Maybe Amazon.

Nice neighbors. (sarcasm) Can you take a photo of the suspects from your house?

I guess I need to upgrade my camera. I bought a voice recorder to try to locate their whacking music. No luck with that yet either.

New years resolution: win, not fail.