02-13-2022, 02:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-28-2022, 08:07 AM by Oedipussy Rex.)
May have to change the title of the thread.
Neighbor's lawn guys mowed up 15 of those clear, 1 mil leaf bags with chopped leaves, then placed them on the curb between our driveways for yard waste pickup. Our municipality has yard waste pickup. The neighbor's lawn guys also placed a bunch fallen branches over there. Our municipality has large waste pickup: branches, appliances, construction scraps (personal amounts, they won't pickup professional work). There's a problem with the neighbor's lawn guys constantly putting stuff on the curb between our driveways: if it's bulk items (branches, leaf bags, etc.), it doesn't get picked up there. The truck uses a crane arm and claw to pick that up and there are tree branches that block the arm. This isn't an issue with normal solid waste pickup as the garbage truck has an arm that reaches straight out from the side of the truck to grab the garbage cans. So I see all this stuff as I'm taking out the garbage for pickup the next day and think, "More leaves. Great!" and haul the leaf bags into my backyard. Then I think, "Branches. Well, hell," then drag them across the road and pile them on the pile of fallen branches that neighbor has piled up.
Now, you might be thinking, "Why didn't the neighbor's lawn guys put all that stuff on the other side of the neighbor's driveway?" Because we live in a cove and the neighbor's lot is only about 20' wide at the street, 10 of that is the driveway, and the mailbox is on the other side. We have curbside mailboxes. You do not block curbside mailboxes.
Anyway. I now have twelve bags of chopped leaves that I'll be using for compost. Two were used to top off the 4' tall by ~4' "diameter" leaf mould bins I made with the leftover hardware mesh I used for the bottoms of the raised beds I built and the third was put in the third composting bin I have. So, "they" say you want your compost bins to be at least 3'x3'x3' to ensure that compost pile gets hot enough to kill any seeds and pathogens. Two of my (commercial) bins are definitely not 3'x3'x3'. 2.5'x2.5'x3' at best. One of which I'm using as the repository for kitchen scraps, adding a layer of leaves as necessary. The other I filled with leaves and have been urinating into at night, occasionally, when letting Grrl out, adding some more leaves when the ammonia smell becomes noticeable. The third (commercial) bin, on the other hand, is definitely at least 3'x3' at the base and at least 4' tall. No urinating into this one. So to provide nitrogen for this bin I'm now urinating into a gallon jug all day and pouring it over the leaves in the morning. So there you are. All that to get to "Pissing in a Jug."
Neighbor's lawn guys mowed up 15 of those clear, 1 mil leaf bags with chopped leaves, then placed them on the curb between our driveways for yard waste pickup. Our municipality has yard waste pickup. The neighbor's lawn guys also placed a bunch fallen branches over there. Our municipality has large waste pickup: branches, appliances, construction scraps (personal amounts, they won't pickup professional work). There's a problem with the neighbor's lawn guys constantly putting stuff on the curb between our driveways: if it's bulk items (branches, leaf bags, etc.), it doesn't get picked up there. The truck uses a crane arm and claw to pick that up and there are tree branches that block the arm. This isn't an issue with normal solid waste pickup as the garbage truck has an arm that reaches straight out from the side of the truck to grab the garbage cans. So I see all this stuff as I'm taking out the garbage for pickup the next day and think, "More leaves. Great!" and haul the leaf bags into my backyard. Then I think, "Branches. Well, hell," then drag them across the road and pile them on the pile of fallen branches that neighbor has piled up.
Now, you might be thinking, "Why didn't the neighbor's lawn guys put all that stuff on the other side of the neighbor's driveway?" Because we live in a cove and the neighbor's lot is only about 20' wide at the street, 10 of that is the driveway, and the mailbox is on the other side. We have curbside mailboxes. You do not block curbside mailboxes.
Anyway. I now have twelve bags of chopped leaves that I'll be using for compost. Two were used to top off the 4' tall by ~4' "diameter" leaf mould bins I made with the leftover hardware mesh I used for the bottoms of the raised beds I built and the third was put in the third composting bin I have. So, "they" say you want your compost bins to be at least 3'x3'x3' to ensure that compost pile gets hot enough to kill any seeds and pathogens. Two of my (commercial) bins are definitely not 3'x3'x3'. 2.5'x2.5'x3' at best. One of which I'm using as the repository for kitchen scraps, adding a layer of leaves as necessary. The other I filled with leaves and have been urinating into at night, occasionally, when letting Grrl out, adding some more leaves when the ammonia smell becomes noticeable. The third (commercial) bin, on the other hand, is definitely at least 3'x3' at the base and at least 4' tall. No urinating into this one. So to provide nitrogen for this bin I'm now urinating into a gallon jug all day and pouring it over the leaves in the morning. So there you are. All that to get to "Pissing in a Jug."
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