r/composting • u/Remote_Platform4277 • Mar 27 '26

Cold/Slow Compost Kinda doing my own thing here

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Gonna throw all my vegetable kitchen scraps in on top of this 6 mo old leaf and grass pile. Threw a bunch of seeds I saved into it the other day. In the fall I’ll load it up with grass clippings and leaves. Piss on it all winter. All while saving any seeds from any store bought produce and adding through the spring, saving until the following spring after that.

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u/comcast_hater1 Mar 28 '26

That's my favorite part about composting. Do whatever the fuck you want. Then piss on it. 

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u/idye24 Mar 28 '26

No not exactly, pissing comes first

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u/Remote_Platform4277 19d ago

Turned into a killer squash patch. Oddly a pineapple took off and is going to die soon.

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u/Bug_McBugface Mar 27 '26

so you just wanna grow volunteers there?

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u/Remote_Platform4277 Mar 27 '26

Yes, I’ve got a bunch 7 gallon pots I’m going to do targeted veggies in. This will just be a free for all and see what happens

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u/Remote_Platform4277 Mar 28 '26

Was it by Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal?

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u/cody_mf OnlyComposts Mar 27 '26

I recommend adding some kind of divider down the middle and piling everything lasagna method on one side, that way you can easily remove the divder and flip/churn it over to the other. I do something similar to that with a big cold-composting berm I made behind my archery targets.

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u/lickspigot we're all food that hasn't died Mar 27 '26

I don't think this is intended to be turned.

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u/cody_mf OnlyComposts Mar 27 '26

ah right, hence the seeds. saving my ass two days in a row now lol

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u/lickspigot we're all food that hasn't died Mar 28 '26

i did? No worries, it's all good. This sub is actually quite open to changing their mind and i enjoy the communal learning aspect of it.

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u/Remote_Platform4277 Mar 27 '26

It’s not, its a zero effort experiment.

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u/Remote_Platform4277 Mar 27 '26

I’m going for a zero maintenance/work dumping ground. I am going to keep the last fence connection free enough to easily get in and harvest should any thing fruit. There’s a stump under it that I want to rot out, all while compost a small portion of my yard waste and maybe growing some veg.

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u/madddwit Mar 28 '26

very smooooth moooove layin’ it down on toppa the stump. dang— i like your style 😎

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u/Remote_Platform4277 19d ago

Squash took off, all grass clippings from inside our fenced in area of our yard. Lots of leaves. Zero attention except containing the quash offshoots.

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u/ernie-bush Mar 28 '26

Best thing about composting is you do your own thing and enjoy it