Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker View Post
Let's see, String... I'm guessing you mean you never wear shorts, or is it skirts you mean. I guess you mean you wear pants on the farm... I wear sandals a lot, but in my place and situation, barefoot gardening is not so good an idea. I never turn my compost. I build it in layers with an inner active core and an outer ring of straw or shredded paper and stuff. I just worry about keeping that inner core fueled and hot for a while. As the year goes by, the layers get higher and higher, then I let the pile rest for a year before I use it. I keep a layer of straw and hay and stuff like that on top of the whole thing and that has to be spread to the side or opened up to add to the core.
To clarify... I never wear shorts, I think i own a pair, maybe. I wear skirts, and can do anything in a skirt that I can do in pants, although not as modestly as my grandmother might desire. However, that being said, barefoot gardening is no more encouraged in Kentucky, we have our own thistles, nettles and briers, but I have never been one to listen to that sort of reason.

My method of composting is simple, keep bucket in kitchen, when bucket is full, dump on top of pile, also do this with all the various and assundry clipping and junk that will rot. This method works surprisingly well, especially on our old compost pile that is probably been established for the last 30+ years. Dad's new piles are closer to the garden (his pack animals for such things went off to college) and they get turned and have methods for the piling and ingredients thereof. I personally think he's just getting old and picky.