SOMETHING YOU DID

A friend of mine taught me how to make compost more quickly by chopping your kitchen waste in a blender, then pouring the sludge on soil and mixing it in. I have all the pulp from my juice everyday plus other food waste, so I decided to give it a try in the concrete corner just outside my door. A former neighbor had left a big planter which I adopted for my maiden batch. The garbage mixture had lemon and cilantro, beet and carrot pulp, banana and pineapple skins. It smelled good enough to eat! The soil in the planter was all dried out, so I expected the sludge to soak in and soften it so I could dig in it. But wait! What's that blood on the sidewalk?! Apparently the dry soil simply filtered all the water from the sludge so it could run out the drain hole! Amazingly, beet juice does not stain concrete, but taught me that there is something of a learning curve on this project!