Compost Turning
Exciting stuff today! I wanted to see how the corn starch bags were getting on in the compost heap. These are the bags Sally uses to bring over the bunny poo with the hay and newspaper as mentioned earlier. They have been under the pile for several months now, the pile has reduced by about half so it was a good day to pull it out and turn it over.
Some of the earlier bags that must be around a year old have broken down pretty well but are still very obvious looking like strips of plastic bag in the pile. The more recent ones, probably about four months in the pile were pretty much intact and their contents still contained. It is very obvious that pricking them with the fork is not enough, I need to slash them open in order for the contents to be able to compost down more quickly.
On the good side, there was a lot of worm activity, not as much as I’d hoped for, but they were there. Hopefully, the weather is warming up enough for them to start increasing in number.