Rats just made their annual cool weather appearance in my 3 stage compost but I’m spitting out a load every 6 weeks at the mo due to regular turning. Every 3 days and cover to keep warm. A great buy was thermometer on a long rod allowing deep monitoring. I find moisture is the driver for fast compost. Too much or less it can sit for months with no brewing.
I’m up north so fulling the garden with winter veg and here is my list. For roasting potatoes, multi colour carrots, radishes.( yip radishes roast well) broadbeans, cauliflower broccoli in different colours, 3 types of dwarf beans, silverbeet, beetroot, orange carrots, lettuce, basil, coriander, parsley, spring onions, leeks, onions.
Harvesting now pumpkin’s, beetroot, beans, egg plants, capsicum, lettuce, spring onions actually this is a long list but a star this year that I am saving the seed from was heirloom popcorn. Bought 5 seeds for $1 each. Way expensive but they are the popped round type, anyway. I got a good crop off them and saved 2 cobs for a large bed next year. Found a killer healthy recipe the family love. Olive oil, fenugreek seeds, ground chilli, nutritional yeast. And how to cook without burning. Heat oil and ingredients and drop in 3 seeds. When they pop tale off heat and put in rest of popcorn seed and they all pop together and no burns 👍
The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men's lives the hours spent on fishing - Assyrian Proverb