Thursday, October 30, 2008

Compost Bin and Seed Starter

Our mini-compost bin continues to work great. We should, by all indications, have a decent amount of compost to use in the Spring. I've also discovered that it serves as a very effective, albeit unintentional, seed starter. Every couple of days when I go out to stir the bin's contents, I find numerous little seedlings. These are obviously growing from discarded tomatoes, peppers, etc. Maybe I should transplant one or two into pots just to see what happens.
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tomato seedling growing in compost bin

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it would be worth a try. You never know.

Anonymous said...

I agree. Try it!

My parents spread their compost around last spring and had tomatos popping up all over. LOL

If nothing actually produces fruit you'll still have good blog fodder. :)

Anonymous said...

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DP Nguyen said...

Haha how cool! try it out!