I recently found a great surprise in my Georgia Garden. See the wood from a cut tree stacked up against the fence? This wood was cut and put into place some time in the year 2005. This was before a Semi-Formal Flower Garden was in place. The wood sat there as you see it for a long time. Then Blogging came into my world. I found our Master Gardener Tina's Blog and then had inspiration. With all the talk of Composting, I decided it was time for me to have a compost bin of sorts. So the Saint and I took the logs down one by one and rearranged them to form 3 walls. It was as if we were children playing with our Lincoln Logs! Not really as these logs were still heavy and full of water although the bark was falling off most of the pieces. I snapped pictures of the project but I cannot find them on file anywhere. Just use your imagination today if you will. I have been putting tables scraps such as coffee grinds, egg shells, veggie & fruit peel, etc into this bin and growing worms like crazy! Without my pictures, I am not sure how long this compost bin has been in place but I am guessing 3 years. 
Today I go out to put in my bowl full of yummy for the worms and look what I found. With all the rains we have been receiving, the wood logs are now breaking down at an extreme rate. 
This stuff looks like something a Gardener would pay good money for at a Garden Center! I had my little hand shovel with me as I always cover my kitchen scraps with dirt. I took my hand shovel and hit the logs a bit and the stuff was falling into the compost pile!
Click on the Video to see how easy this was. I am right handed and was holding the camera with my right hand while chopping with my clumsy left hand. If I could have gotten to it with my right hand, I would have put a woodpecker to shame with my pecks! Once the weather gets nicer, the Saint and I will see what we can do to help the process along, maybe by using a larger shovel.
I hope this once tall tree will be gold for the Garden. This is a long process and I never knew I was COMPOSTING TREES, In the Garden...
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