Several months ago, at the tail end of fall/beginning of winter, after spending several months happily buying much produce from our town's new farmer's market, I decided to start a compost pile. Now granted, this was right before heading into a long Wyoming winter, but in my naivete (or stupidity), I simply thought that I would use the compost pile as an organic food dump for several frozen months and then would get to watch the compost begin in earnest come spring thaw.
Several months later, it seems that my foray into composting has come to an end. All winter long the compost has been frozen solid, but I just assumed
that it would start composting once everything thawed out. I was almost right, as it did thaw out. It has not, however, been composting, but instead everything has been rotting like crazy for the last month or so. It smells worse than anything I've ever smelled in my life. Its as if there is a dead body stuffed into the black container behind my house.
Yesterday the container fell apart. Everything snapped and started unwrapping. I've got rotting carrots and banana peels all over the place. I don't know what to do. Absolutely horrific. My plan- dump a bunch of sawdust on it and walk away.
So, my question- what absolutely boneheaded things have you done lately?
Several months later, it seems that my foray into composting has come to an end. All winter long the compost has been frozen solid, but I just assumed
that it would start composting once everything thawed out. I was almost right, as it did thaw out. It has not, however, been composting, but instead everything has been rotting like crazy for the last month or so. It smells worse than anything I've ever smelled in my life. Its as if there is a dead body stuffed into the black container behind my house.
Yesterday the container fell apart. Everything snapped and started unwrapping. I've got rotting carrots and banana peels all over the place. I don't know what to do. Absolutely horrific. My plan- dump a bunch of sawdust on it and walk away.
So, my question- what absolutely boneheaded things have you done lately?