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The first year I had the bigger compost bins, I turned stuff from one to the other about once a month. Then, I got older, a job and found all sorts of other things to do.
We just kept dumping stuff in; it kept settling and we kept dumping. We added wet paper, weeds, leaves, scraps, hay and let it settle. I think there may be some real dirt at the bottom of the bin by now. The second bin is full of leaves, chipped branches, hay, weeds and more. One year some fabulous pumpkin vines grew all over the bin. No pumpkins, but some great photo-ops.
This year, when the potatoes came up from some throw-aways, I really expected that there would be none. The vines were huge and lush — the sort of thing that hints at all tops and no ‘taters.
They bloomed and this week, they ‘went down’. I thought maybe before they completed degraded and disappeared, I would check to see if there are any little potatoes. You can see from the picture, the plant had me fooled.
Simple white potatoes. I think I will stick a couple back to put into the bin when the weather turns so they can freeze over the winter and maybe do this again.
They are marvelously CLEAN!!
