So, during the last growing season, I’ve put some garden waste (deadheaded comfrey, weeds, etc) into an empty garden soil bag, folded the top, and left it in my plot.

[otterx@mindly.social]

So, during the last growing season, I’ve put some garden waste (deadheaded comfrey, weeds, etc) into an empty garden soil bag, folded the top, and left it in my plot.

Today, I turned the content upside down by putting it into another bag. I’m pleased to find that the bottom half is composted into rich soil!

Maybe I’m onto an easy composting method using two soil bags (or I was lucky this time).

#composting

[otterx@mindly.social]

Comfrey is a must. Bees and other pollinators love the flowers. It makes great compost. And it has allantoin, which has healing property—just like aloe. I serendipitously discovered, when comfrey sap is applied to mosquito bites, it quickly soothes the itchy skin. You can also eat the emerging small plants, cooked like spinach, but only in small amount.*

*can be a liver toxin in large amount

[pollinators@epicure.social]

@otterX Yes indeed. Comfrey is a wonderful perennial plant for easy soil amendments. Comfrey collects and shares multivitamins for the soil biology, chop and drop, extractions and more. #compost, #soilbiology, #knf, #growyourown

[kelleynnn@mas.to]

@otterX That's what I do, except i use two black garbage cans with holes drilled into them. If they're not too full I can turn the pile by rolling them on their sides.

[otterx@mindly.social]

@kelleynnn That’s awesome and clever!

I do have a small rotating composter in my community garden plot, but the space is so limited. I experimentally used a garden soil bag, and it seemed have worked.