Plans for the spring?

[gumbogumbo]

What are you all planning for this spring? I'm thinking cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and strawberries for me. Marigolds to fend away a bug or two. I only container garden, so I have to get myself a decent trellis before the season starts. Maybe this year I'll actually use compost. What about you?

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[jottingprosaist]

I still miss the big compost bin at my parents' place. But I'm determined to continue composting at my rental home, which means... I've been chucking my kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, and powdered eggshells off the side of my front steps. Behind a big cedar that hides the mess. Hopefully in the spring I'll dig it all into the dirt and have nobody be the wiser.

[cyprinella]

So I have a couple of largeish Rubbermaid bins (they're the Roughneck 25 gal) that I compost in. I drilled holes in it following these directions and it works really well! Obviously not quickly as my big bedding pile does since it doesn't get hot the same way a big pile would but it does reduce the suburban trash pests getting in it.

I also seem to end up with soldier flies in it every year which is both a blessing and a curse: Great poultry food and churns through organic waste FAST but also gets anaerobic fast and you have these wasp-looking flies around.