Maggie,

Do you have anything under yer compost pile??? Like a sheet of T-111 (pressure treated) or at the very least, some plastic??? I folunf back ion Wes Ginny that if you don't do that that roots from nearby trees will find yer compost and send up roots into it an suck out the good un's... That is a bad thing if yer gonna use the compost elsewhere...

We have a Mantis two chambered tumbler which, I'll admit, we don't use to full advantage but it will make about a half a yard of compost a month if one is dillegent... We aren't but we have good intentions... We used it alot in Wes Ginny but there we only had about an acre of gardens to keep up... Here??? It's like 2 1/2 acres and we just don't pay enough attention to our tumbler... May we need to move it closer to the house... We do have a compost pile and it's okay but the roots do get in it an' rob us of the good 'un's...

No gardening here today... Just mowing after the rain stopped... Everything looks real purdy...

B~