Getting into the Swing of Spring

I got plenty of weeds pulled this weekend and a bunch more seeds started. (see calendar for details)

Tree sprouts from a neighbor's box elder.

Don't know what these are but I didn't plant them.

Inspecting the sprouts inside I found one was damaged.

No clue what caused this except maybe it touched the window. Ideas?

Transplanted some of the older sprouts (broccoli and parsley) to the great outdoors yesterday.
Most are doing well.

One's translucent. Frost damage?

This broccoli's doing fine.

And so is the parsley.

I used zip-ties to make hoops of hardware cloth for the compost heap.
Turns out we had a lot more composting materials in that heap than I realized.

Much tidier compost setup.

Today's scraps makes 2 full hoops. Getting more mesh Tues.

I had considered getting a "proper" black plastic composter but they're $50! and they'd only hold as much as one or maybe one and a half of my mesh mock ups. The hardware cloth for each hoop cost $10 and the zip-ties I count as free because we already had them but they would have only been about a buck. We're going to need a lot more because this is just from November. I figure we'll fill at least another four hoops this year alone.

How do you compost? Do you stir? Feed worms indoors? Or maybe use a municipal green bin?
Leave a comment below and let us know your favorite composting tips & tricks.