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Gardening

Kaleva

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2. No bugs or flies in the winter. It's quite cool down there.

Reply to Kimber432 (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 11, 2020, 04:13 PM

Apr 2020

Summer would be another story so I don't do that during the warm part of year.

During warm weather, I'll take the compostable material straight to the garden an bury it in a raised bed or raised row I am leaving fallow for that year. Worms and decomposing do their work.

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Shoveled snow off one of the raised beds in the garden so I could work the soil [View all] Kaleva Apr 2020 OP

Gnats and flies and ? Kimber432 Apr 2020 #1

No bugs or flies in the winter. It's quite cool down there. Kaleva Apr 2020 #2