Compost Gardens

Every year it's interesting to see what will spontaneously grow in the vegetable debris in our compost heap.

We frequently get tomato plants in out compost. The one year we actually got tomatoes they were horrible! Ultra acidic.

Various members of the squash family (Cucurbitaceae) are also common. Is this watermelon, zucchini, yellow squash, acorn squash? We'll have to wait and see!

Another squash-family sprout.

This year an onion also started to grow.

It's not only plants that show up in the compost:

An Eastern Box Turtle snacking on leaves in the compost heap.

Red stains around her mouth suggested that our bumper crop of blackberries have been on the turtle menu.

She also showed evidence that a bear had attacked. The orange arrows point to depressions in the shell that look a lot like bear tooth marks.

To be continued...