397 - Winter Composting
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week Jill talks about composting in the winter. Is it even possible or worth your time when it's not warm outside? Are there different ways to go about it? FInd out all this and more in this week's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. Today we're going to be talking about a topic |
| 0:05.1 | that hopefully will apply to you this winter, and that is winter composting. Before we get started, |
| 0:11.7 | I want to share with you a story from this past weekend as I'm recording this. I went to a women's |
| 0:16.8 | event at our church and a local chef that I adore, she goes to church with us. She did a cooking |
| 0:22.2 | demonstration right in front of us. She made this amazing chicken and wild rice soup. And many of you |
| 0:28.2 | guys know, I love to garden, but I'm not a great cook. So I'm always all ears at how I can |
| 0:34.1 | cook better, especially when I'm using my own gardens harvest. As she started peeling |
| 0:39.6 | the onion and working on the celery and the carrots and all of that, she had a trash bowl, |
| 0:45.2 | which I was excited about because I was thinking, okay, a trash bowl, that's normal, that's what I do |
| 0:50.5 | too. But then I cringed when I saw that she put the cartons of chicken broth. |
| 0:57.1 | After she had put the chicken broth into the soup, she put the cartons in the trash bowl. |
| 1:00.6 | And that's when I realized that her trash bowl and my trash bowl are completely different. |
| 1:05.9 | Her trash bowl actually had trash that was going into the trash can, whereas my trash bowl that I use has things |
| 1:13.9 | that I compost, and it goes directly in the compost pile. I actually had the fleeting thought of, |
| 1:18.5 | I want to take that, and I want to take the cartons of chicken broth out of there, and I want to |
| 1:22.3 | take this home so that I can put it in my compost. Just because that's become such a thing for me |
| 1:26.1 | over the years is using all of |
| 1:28.8 | the kitchen waste that I can to be able to make compost. In fact, it's kind of a funny thing with my |
| 1:34.6 | kids because they're 18 and 14 and they're at the age where they can roll their eyes at their |
| 1:39.6 | mom at the crazy stuff that mom does. But they have almost found it to be a joke where if I'm in the |
| 1:46.2 | room and they have eaten a banana or how they have an apple core, they will just look at me and |
| 1:52.5 | almost try to throw it in the trash can, which is right below where my compost bucket is, to see |
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