Growers and Grocers

We’ve just moved into a new house here in the Pacific Northwest and this summer we want to grow some of our own vegetables.  My oldest son is very excited about the idea of zucchini fresh from the garden, which is interesting because he won’t eat it if I buy it from the grocery store.  But if a $1.29 packet of seeds will encourage him to eat zucchini, who am I to argue?

The land our house is built on was once a strawberry farm, but the farm ceased production in the early 1960s, so the soil has been grown over with grasses and blackberry brambles almost ever since.  I know we’re going to need to amend the soil with some good compost before we start planting. 

Around Christmas I ordered a little compost pail to put on our kitchen counter to collect vegetable scraps.  Because we hadn’t actually started our compost pile, we needed some way to contain all the scraps we were generating.  I stumbled on these compostable biodegradable bags, and I’ve never looked back.

These bags fit into my little pail and hold up to 10 liters (about 2 and a half gallons).  They come in a roll of 100 and when they’re full, I just pull them out of the pail, tie them up, and toss them into a special container in our garage.  The pail just needs a quick rinse, a new liner, and we’re ready to go again.