For fun, post pictures of what volunteers are growing and producing in your compost.
Mine is overrun with sungolds. I’ve heavily prune them a few times, but mostly forgot what’s going on over there until I see pops of orange. Naturally, they’re the best tasting tomatoes on my lot.
I will get a photo later. But my wood chip pile is full of tons of fibrous roots clearly coming in horizontal.
I tarp my compost, top soil and sometimes woodchip piles.
The lizards and spiders, toads and other predators seem to enjoy the privacy.
I was getting too many weed seeds and tree seeds untarped i think.
Worms seem to like the tarp better than not.
Dragonfruit. Stuff doesn’t die, even buried at the bottom of the compost pile with no light, a month or two later I’ll always see a little cactus breaking out the top.
I have a few volunteer tomatoes growing in my current pile.
I had one okra plant left over once I planted all my garden space… and I planted it in the back right corner of my compost pile… it is growing nicely, producing fruit.
One year… a few back I had a vol spaghetti squash vine come up in my pile and it produced 7 fruit.
TNHunter
