• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    Compost helps, storage is the issue. I’m ok with it open but not okay with the timber rattlers, cotton mouths and copperheads different scavengers would attract.

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      raised beds, kinda silly like a fridge in a heated house in a snow storm kinda way but they do work

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        Once you start growing plants, you’ll have much more compostable material than just the kitchen waste. You can also compost grass and tree leaves.

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        Yes, I’ve been discussing it with a neighbor. Storage is the current challenge. We need an old freezer with the coils gutted (snakes love coils, anyone with a boa or python for any length of time and a sofa can tell you!) or something. We’re looking.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          snakes love coils, anyone with a boa or python for any length of time and a sofa can tell you!

          That’s actually adorable (when it’s not wild/poisonous) and reminds me of how Odo’s quarters had interesting objects he liked to take the form of