What's Bob and everybody, hello and welcome to popcorn culture.

My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host.

Here today is my brother Jay.

Who will be in every episode? Ben Garden Update. Oh, it sounded like you were calling me Ben Garden and I was like, I don't hate it. Ben Garden. Ben Garden. Nice to meet you. There you go. All right, garden update. Let's go. I think I'm getting worse at composting somehow.

That's not what I wanted to hear.

I know, you know, I, all right, garden update. Let's go. I think I'm getting worse at composting somehow.

That's not what I wanted to hear. I know. So tell me more about why you're getting bad at

composting. I know. It seems like how could you be bad at it? Just leave it where it is and it does

its thing pretty much. Do you mean to tell me that your organic matter is not decomposting?

Here's what I mean.

Okay.

Is that because it, we are, we are, where we live in Roanoke, Virginia does this thing in

the spring where it likes to pretend it's spring, but also still winter.

Like, we don't sort of like gradually start moving up from winter to where it's like, oh yeah, it was 30 degrees for a week, then 40 degrees for a week, then 50 degrees for a week. It's like, hey, it was 80. Guess what? It's freezing again. Now it's 40. Now it's 20. Now it's 8. It's 90. You know, it's all over the place. And that's like four days. And that's, yes, I'm sorry. That was like, that was one week. Okay. It, the weather is so weird here when it's changing from winter to spring. And I think that's just like big mid-Atlantic life for you because like we're, you know,

we're like equal parts. Like at some point in time, I feel like for SCB, we had hired somebody from Wisconsin and somebody from Miami. Yeah. It was like hilarious to see the ways in which winter went well for one of them and summer went well for one of them. Right. Then the others were terrible. Right. And then we're kind of like in the middle ground where it's like, we're kind of used to cold weather.

We're kind of used to hot weather.

Yeah.

Well. one of them. Right. Then the others were terrible. Right. And then we're kind of like in the middle ground where it's like, we're kind of used to cold weather. We're kind of used to hot weather. Yeah. What we don't like is fluctuating weather. Yeah, which we have. Which we have. Um, but so what will happen someday. So what keeps happening is that it will be suddenly so cold outside that I will not want to take the compost outside. Okay. So to sit on my kitchen counter. And there have been days where I've even actually, I've been like, I'm just going to brave the cold. I'm just going to go do it. And I'll bring it down there. And my compost will literally be frozen shut. I cannot even open it to add new stuff. Okay. And I'm like, now what? Now what do?

And now I've gotten to the point where because I haven't taken it out, it's not like

it's not doing its thing there on the kitchen counter either.

Oh, yeah.

So you got, you got decompostition on your kitchen counter.

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