Harvested my compost today. I used the unfinished stuff to start the next one. I got quite a lot! I'm pretty much always surprised by how much useable compost comes from one season's composting. It was wetter than it should have been, though. It's fine, just a bit too moist. I think this is because the cylinder was so full I was not really able to lift and aerate the lower portions for a while,and though we've had very little rain, the compost sits in a hole and so water flows down there from whatever! I also have probably overwatered it at times because it's been so dry here and I overestimated how much it needed.
No big deal though. I have a lot to work with, and it's okay that some of it is not fully finished; by spring it will be!
For the first time in a while I'm wanting a sifter, though, to screen some of it. I haven't felt I needed to use one in years, but here it seems it would be handy. I used to use those square plastic nursery flats that were gridded on the quarter inch, but I haven't seen any of those in a while! I even looked around at some websites selling nursery supplies, flats and pots, and didn't find any of those. A few years ago, they were all over the place.
Ah well.
