Thursday, June 30, 2005
Weeds for the Kitchen Garbage?
My mother loves to poke around our yard without announcing her presence, she lives about four miles away and drives over unannounced. This morning, I heard her car idling on our driveway, when I came out I found her weeding and trying to unearth two "duende" (gnome) plant buds.
She pulled up a few weeds which she handed to me as I came back into the house. The weeds went in with the regular garbage, something that triggered this question: would adding live weeds to the kitchen garbage help decompose it faster? I think it would; regardless of any ecological benefit to adding weeds to the trash, I liked seeing green weeds poking out of my small, kitchen garbage can.
She pulled up a few weeds which she handed to me as I came back into the house. The weeds went in with the regular garbage, something that triggered this question: would adding live weeds to the kitchen garbage help decompose it faster? I think it would; regardless of any ecological benefit to adding weeds to the trash, I liked seeing green weeds poking out of my small, kitchen garbage can.
