End of July

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July is coming to an end and it's HOT here in Arkansas!!! The heat index has brought our temperatures to over 100 every day for the last 2 weeks! I've been doing most of the gardening/yard chores at night to escape the worst of the heat but even at night it's well in the 90s! The garden has been giving us a beautiful assortment of veggies everyday!
I've been really concerned about the amount of trash we have every week and as we don't really have a place to have a compost pile...I turned a trash can into a composter and it's been wonderful!...It has already cut the amount of things we throw into the trash at least in half!
Did You know that you can compost: Paper napkins/Paper Towels Freezer-burned food Pet fur Post-it notes Wood Hay Popcorn (unpopped, 'Old Maids,' too) Dryer lint Old spices Pine needles Leaves Matches (paper or wood) Hops Manure Pet cage cleanings Grass clippings Vegetable peelings Unpaid bills Hair clippings from the barber Stale bread Coffee grounds and filters/Tea bags Wood ashes Sawdust Shredded newspapers Egg shells Pea vines Houseplant trimmings Old pasta Jell-o Sunday comics Kleenex tissues Tree bark Melted ice cream Q-tips (cardboard, not plastic sticks) Stale potato chips Old leather gardening gloves Tobacco Nut shells Cattail reeds Apple cores Nail clippings Shrimp shells Watermelon rinds Cooked rice Banana peels Wooden toothpicks Dust bunnies from under the bed Pencil shavings Liquid from canned vegetables Grocery receipts

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