My Fair Share

Compost is meant to get hot – I understand that. Being in the sun is probably a good thing then for a compost heap.

But, today I built one under the biggest tree that we have. Just unloaded the manure from the trailer and mixed it with a year’s worth of leaves from under the tree.

I would have run it all through the shredder but we are out of fuel – so maybe some other day.

Anyway, I was piling it all up and marvelling at how the heat was building while I was putting it together when I realised something: I don’t actually like making compost heaps in the sun.

It’s summer here, and about 40 degrees from 8am to 6pm (I guess that’s maybe 105 F?), so I reckon the air temperature is enough for the heap without the sun beating down and eating at my skin as well.