Composting Shoe Update

So, I dug out the shoes from a long cold winter in the middle of the compost pile. It might have been warmer in there then in my house all winter. I was actually quite suprised by the progress of decomposition even though it has been an extra cold winter. Below are some pictures I took before I threw back in. This is pretty close to a one year update.


The shoes, both, were really flimsy, so they are starting to loose a bit of structure.


The gum soles of one shoe was cracking and splitting.

This actually the gum sole of the other shoe. You can see the light brown, which tells me the gum is pretty much gone on this shoe. Last post showed the gum sole of one shoe cracking like the picture above, but I am not sure if this is that shoe or not.


You can not tell from the pictures, but they are real flimsy at this point, so I am thinking this summer they should decompose a lot.

Spring is showing its pretty face in the Texas Natives bed

I have two things blooming in the Native Texas bed. Here is a little taste of what Spring will bring.

Salvia greggii

Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

Spring Garden 2010

This Spring, I have decided to expand the garden and make a much larger in-the-ground bed. I always had to have raised beds with little fences around them, because my dog Dora would dig and root around in the beds. Since Dora has been gone, my spouse and I have been thinking about getting another dog, but we have decided to take a small break from the dog ownership world and do a few things we were unable to do while owning Dora. Mine, have a big garden. So, here is my newly build garden with our Spring veggies. It's called Dizzle Farms.

Potatoes in the two rows on the right and beets in the far row. Yellow crooked neck squash will go under the trellis. Gambling this Spring, since everyone says its hard to grow squash in Austin since we have a squash borer problem. I guess we shall see.

I call this the pepper and eggplant grove. Two jalapenos, two bells, and two ichiban eggplants.

Corn rows.

The tomato patch. Two sungolds, a solar flare, cherokee purple, best boy, and beef steak.

Cantaloupe.