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Crossroads—May 22, 1985—Page 5A
The 'mysteries' of creating
By Patrick Denton
There's always something
of a mystical aura to that
venerable gardening oper-
ation, the creating, of com-
post. Just why that should be
so, I don't really know, al-
though I will admit it some-
times takes several attempts
before a beginning gardener
becomes adept at compost-
ing under his particular gar-
dening conditions.
Compost is simply
thoroughly decayed vege-
tative refuse that is trans-
formed into soft and crumbly
material so useful in our gar-
dens as fertilizer and as a
soil conditioner. Even indoor
gardeners can produce it.
A valuable treasure in the
garden, compost not only
greatly improves the phys-
ical properties of a soil, but
also adds to it both major nu-
trients and trace elements
necessary for healthy plant
growth, reducing a garden's
' need for
pur-
chased fertilizers. additional,
You may think that com-
post heaps are just for
farmers, or home gardeners
with large properties. Not so.
Even a pocket handkerchief
garden, or a balcony..garden,
can accommodate a compost
heap in miniature enclosed
within a double plastic bag.
Into the bag can go vege-
table peelings, apple cores,
tea leaves, coffee grounds —
any clean vegetable waste.
Avoid any dubious looking or
diseased materials. Add a
few handfuls of potting or
garden soil and perhaps
some shredded, dampened
sheets df newspaper.
Placed in a warm spot, the
materials will break down
quickly at this time of year
and be ready to use within a
month. Turning and shaking
the bag gently from time to
time will help mix and
aerate the decomposing ma-
terial accelerating °the pro-
cess.
This plastic bag composting
method is also a useful one to
remember this fall, when
bags of leaves and vegetable,
waste can be brought into a
heated garage or basement
to keep finished compost and
leaf mold coming along even
during winter, when the
Most peopl-e also add to
their compost y eaps all veg-
etable and fruit trimmings,
coffee grounds and tea
leaves from the kitchen,
though at our place we dig
these straight into the gar-
_, den to avoid flies and odors
and for extra -fast breaking
down. They usually' go into
holes .dug between the pea
rows, and the material is
well covered with soil.
Avoid adding to your corp
post heap any meats, fats or
sugars, diseased plant parts
or any Mature weeds. Do add
layers of seaweed qr lake-
*eed, or animal manures if
you have access to them, as
these hasten the rotting pro-
cess. As you add vegetative
wast l heap, algarso adend
a ' he.tevrf„1your nr so of d
By BILL SMILEY
A long, hard winter. About
fourteen feet of snow in these
parts. A blizzard in March.
Another in April. A cold,
brutal spring, with a cutting
wind every day, even when
the sun shone.
However, that is quite nor-
mal for .people in this
country whose ancestors
were stupid enough to emi-
grate to Canada, instead of
Australia or South Africa or
Sduthern California.
I got through it, somehow,
getting up every day at the
crack of noon to look out the
window, see the snow swirl-
ing, say a bad word or two,
and climb back into bed with
a book, hoping someone
would come to dig me out.
Or, failing that, that every-
one would leave me alone, to
be found in June, in bed, and
in extremis.
It wasn't so bad,,, really.
My daughter and grandboys
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soil at regular intervals, to
introduce the soil organisms
that work on the material to
break it down.
Soft and shredded mater-
ials break down. quickly in
warm weather. For this
reason I try to finish off a
heap or two during the sum-
mer. \ When the pile has
reached the top of its en-
closure, or around 4 feet high
in the open, I take a garden
fork to it, mixing the mater-
ial as best as I can. Covered
with a layer of soil and a
sheet of black plastic, the
compost can be ready to use
in as little as six weeks.
There are a number of
commercial compost acti-
vators on the market and it's
just a matter of finding one
A
compost
breaking -down process
slows down considerably or
stops outdoors.
On a small city lot, com-
post can also be neatly con-
tained in variouskinds of
bins, usually three -sided,
made of wire, openwork
bricks, framed screening or
wooden slats.
The ideal is to have three
bins, one to contain finished
compost that is currently be-
ing used, another in the pro-
cess of decay, the third being
the one receiving fresh ma-
terial for composting.
It's at this time of the year
that home gardeners have
the most abundant supply of
composting materials —
small weeds, lawn clip-
plings, spent flower blos-
soms and vegetable 'plant
parts we don't eat.
Bill Smiley
Losing face
came for the March break
And break it was. Ben seems
to by hyper. He never walks
when he can dance. He never
shuffles when he can jump
He kicked out one of the
spokes in my staircase. But
he can't be hyper, because
'he can sit and watch. TV for
eight hours without moving,a
muscle or even blinking. So
much for psychiatry.
And my son, Hugh, visited
every few weeks, when he
wasn't off in Central
America, not being shot or
captured or kidnapped in
Nicaragua. He wasn't even
tortured. Yet, in Toronto, he
was. Three druggies broke in
on him; beat him up, poured
boiling water all .over him,
smashed a kneecap with .a
hammer, and cleaned out all
his hi-fi equipment. Funny
world, eh?
Of course, the kids love
their father like a father. Al-
ways hugs and kisses, a
tradition in our family. But I
have to keep an eye on the
bums. They're both always
broke, and they know the old
man has a few nickels in the
sock. Kim sighs, "Boy, I'd
like to have a house some
day." And Hugh admits that
he could get a $1,000 electric
piano into his room. He has
instant recall. But he also
has instant forgetfulness.
Like who supplied the funds
for his Central American
sashay. I'll give you a hint. It
was a close relative
But all these things, and
even the fact that I haven't
paid my 1983 (yes, that's
1983), income tax yet, have
not created the malaise I feel
this spring.
There's something deeper.
I'm losing face. Oh, I don't
mean my physical face. It's
disintegrating ' just like
yours, and yours.
No. I'm falling behind in
the race. My pride has been.
badly bruised, and I can find
no solution, even though my
pride is pretty tenuous, and
the solution seems simple.
Every_so oftn,
old friends invites me out to
dinner. I don't know why.
I'm about as sociable as a
hibernating bear. Nonethe-
less, I accept with gratitude
and anticipation: the wine
flowing, the political and
philosophical conversation,
the change from frozen
chicken pies. ' .•...... _ ._
And every time it happens,
I sort of slink into a material
corner. Know why? Because
every one of them has
several things I don't have.
You name it, they have it.
After a meal, I suggest help-
ing with the dishes. "No
problem, Bill, we'll just put
them in the electric dish-
washer." I wash mine in the
kitchen sink, in a brown
plastic bowl: When I wash
them, which is a least twice a
week.
Then we spend half an
hour talking about dish-
washers: price, quality,
length of existence.
Dinner is brought to the
table, everything piping hot,
and I learn, very quickly,
that it was all cooked in
something like twelve
minutes, in the new micro-
wave oven. that's good for
another halfhour, as the
ladies compare brands and
recipes.
Then, when I'm hoping for
nothing worse than a re -run
on TV, I find that mine hosts
have a VCR, whatever that
is, and we're about to watch
a movie that at least three
thousand people saw when it
first came out, in 1939. Wow.
Over brandy and cigars,
we don't listen to records of
Bach or Gershwin or Handel.
We listen to tape recorders
and compare prices and
makes and decide on where
the speakers should be.
I sit in a corner, nodding
pleasantly. I don't have any
of these things, and can't
even discuss them with
knowledge, let alone anima-
tion. t
Oh, I don't have a back -
house. I do have a television
set and get the right channel
four out of ten times. I have a
stove and a refrigerator. I
handle the fridge quite.well.
I have electric lights and a
furnace.
But I don't have ,a dish-
washer, except myself, nor a
microwave oven, or a VCR,
nor,a home computer. I am a
failure.
Perhaps it's because I am
not too mechanical. My wife
one of my used to handle all that
nonsense. She could change
a plug in the flash of an eye,
while I was looking for the
flashlight.
I do have a vacuum clean-
er, and I can run that. I got
an electric shaver for Christ-
mas, aid it took me four
days to try it. I Was scared.
It's now broken. -I have a
food blender, but don't know.
how to work it. Pretty sad
story for a guy who flew Spit-
fires.
Putterh' Pete
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