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Old June 15, 2017   #14
Rockporter
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Originally Posted by bower View Post
I am supremely lazy and don't turn the compost for a year. Ants however go nuts in these unturned piles, but what the heck... if I turn it, they'll be all over me. Hate hate ant bites.
One great thing about the hardware cloth, it will keep out rodents too. Big bonus.

Don't know how I missed this post but seaweed sounds good. I don't go to the beach though, lol. It's to hot and humid out right now. I may try that in the fall when it's much cooler and I can stand to breath out there. I haven't as of yet seen any rodents in there but if I do I will close the entire thing with hardware cloth.

I haven't turned mine much either and a couple weeks back I discovered something growing in it. Now to me it looks like a squash plant but I won't know until it starts putting something out. I just avoid that spot when I toss new material on it. Hubby asked me the other day what it was and when I mentioned possible squash he agreed with me. At least I know the compost underneath is pretty good stuff to grow a volunteer.
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