#compost bin

[earthwormes]

manifesting

[rinshey46]

It's raining season. Time to collect earthworms for my compost bin

[harlepinyo]

practicing drawing mr. yaoi himself to cope with round six. yay yay!

[huariqueje]

Compost *  -   Cressida Campbell  , 1994.

Australian , b . 1960 -  

Oil on canvas , 51  x  51 cm.

*'My mother had a little plastic ice-cream container for the compost heap, which was downstairs at the end of the garden. She always ate papaya or other fruit for breakfast and often asked me to take the container downstairs for her. When I was visiting for dinner, I thought it looked like a particularly beautiful composition of colour and shape and design, so I said, ‘I’ll come over tomorrow and draw it.’'—Cressida Campbell

[magicaltrash]

You've bought the Disney trash can holiday ornaments and keychain. You wanted something bigger so you picked up a few salt shakers. How do you feel about compost? Both Disneyland and Walt Disney World have introduced a new merchandise item that looks like a trash can. But what exactly is it? The label on this item reads:

Compost & More! Potential Uses For This Product: Compost Bin • Ice Bucket • Wastepaper Basket • Cookie Jar • Storage Container • Vase

The label feels like an afterthought, as if someone asked a few friends what they thought this item could be used for and then threw it on the shelf. The trailing bullets in what was clearly written as a single line of text then word wrapped add to the amusement. Officially, according to a source at WDW, this item rings up as a "Compost Bin" at merchandise locations. Made from plastic, it measures 10" H x 6" W x 6" D.

For Disney trash can enthusiasts, it's great to see Disney continue to give their iconic cans proper representation, allowing guests to take home a bit of the magic. (Not mentioning any names, but some dedicated weirdos have been building Disney trash can fandom for over 15 years, but I digress...)

The design itself features shades of light blue, teal, and aqua, accented by bright yellow. Like most trash can merchandise these days, the design patterns along the edge of the panels often illustrate can designs as they used to be, much like previous salt shakers and ornaments.

Hints of the interlocking boxes pattern can currently be seen in the Magic Kingdom near Casey's Corner and Crystal Palace. The small curved details are implemented near the Monorail Station and Ferry Docks. Both of these design aspects have also been used in the past on Disneyland's green/yellow Main Street U.S.A. cans, as well as on both the yellow and dark green can designs near the hub of the Magic Kingdom. (There was a time when the Magic Kingdom actually cared about trash can design on Main Street U.S.A. Disney Difference? Whatever.) The castle iconography is generic enough to represent either Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella's castles, while the Mickey with spatula seal hints at this being used in kitchen areas of your home.

Overall, it's great to see more trash can products, but it seems like they didn't put much thought into marketing this particular item. The labeling essentially admits, "we don't have a clue, why don't you figure it out?"

// Trash Can-Shaped Compost Bin, Disneyland Resort & Walt Disney World Resort, Merchandise, 2025

[Source: Disneyland on Film, Not Justin Orlando, and Laughing Place. Used by Permission.]

[inthecityofgoodabode]

March 2025: The Long Overdue Post - Part 2

I exceeded the 30 image limit so I had to make a part 2.

Red-bellied woodpecker:

Turnips:

Pumpkins sprout in our compost bin:

White-throated sparrow in our weeping cherry:

Some of our cool season vegetables that didn't thrive refused to die. We'll eventually have to pull them out to make room for the warm season vegetables but I'm going to try to rehome some of them:

2024 was the last year for our red Russian kale that we'd had for several years but its children survived:

I think this is lamb's quarter which is edible. I'll probably have to move it since it is taking up valuable growing space but I want to rehome it so I can see what it tastes like:

[tvickiesims]

Selected Garden Objects by Syboulette Converted 4t2

A conversion of several objects made by @syboubou​ from Sims 4 to Sims 2.

Contains compost bin, water pump and water hose from their “A la ferme” set as well as a planter from “Hortensia garden” set.

Compost bin is meant to work with @lamare-sims​’s and mine Planting Overhaul mod. Comes in all the original colors plus Cluedo woods by @shastakiss​.

Planter works as a planter (4 slots) and needs @honeywell-mts​ garden plot or @lamare-sims​ edited version of it to work with Planting Overhaul mod. I’d also recommend having this fertilizing fix by@midgethetree.

Compressed, clearly labelled, picture included.

Download at SFS

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UPDATE 28/07/2023:

Added polycounts directly in the object’s description, cleaned up the planter file a bit and centered it a bit differently, nothing major.

UPDATE 29/02/2024:

Major update: replaced images in the post, smoothed out meshes, removed shine, made quarter tile placeable, fixed too dark recolors, moved planter and adjusted slots, cleaned up files inside, deleted mipmaps. If you ever ran into issues with any of these objects, chances are they are now fixed.

[bumblebeeappletree]

Jerry is north of Brisbane to visit a home gardener who has built a remarkable food garden over a decade, that enabled her to avoid food shopping for an entire year. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe

Around 15 years ago Sonia and her partner Rob decided they wanted to start building a food garden. “We never did a plan. We just did it bit by bit. We based it on convenience; we walk here so let’s plant here. It just evolved over time.”

In 2019, Sonia set out on a remarkable challenge to eat 100% of her diet from her garden. “It was just to see if I could do it.”

“I did go to bed hungry a couple of times, but only a couple. It was challenging at times. I really missed bread, but it was really amazing the connection I felt to the garden. I’d love to do it again one day. Especially now that I have honey!”

Growing enough food to live off is a huge achievement, and the fruit trees here would have helped immensely. This area holds a litany of temperate, subtropical and tropical fruit trees; loquat, wampis, bananas, citrus, mulberry and peaches to name just a few. The food forest understory is edible too, with smaller cover crops like pepino and nasturtium.

Sonia has a rare passionfruit species to offer Jerry to try. “It’s a Japanese hard-shelled passionfruit (Passiflora maliformis). You crack the shell with a hammer like a nut, and the flesh is a really creamy passionfruit flavour.”

Nearby, Sonia has an entire area of the garden dedicated to native food plants. Here you’ll find native nutmeg (Myristica insipida, ground kernel used as spice), Fraser Island Apple (Acronychia imperforate, small sweet yellow fruits), white aspen (Acronychia oblongifolia, aromatic white fruit with a pine/mango flavour). She points out the native mulberry (Pipturus argenteus) as her favourite.

Adjacent is an area that Sonia has converted from annual crops into perennial, ornamental natives. Since taking up beekeeping (both stingless and European), Sonia’s been conscious about including more year-round flowering plants in her garden, and to this end, has callistemon, banksia and grevillea planted to help out her growing collection of hives.

Sonia’s not only managing to line her own belly, she’s providing a resource for her community. Out the front of their place she’s set up a stall selling her excess produce, and it’s become very well known in the community. The honesty-based payment system has been such a success, it’s funding Sonia’s holidays, and she feels like people may be putting in extra money - such is the appreciation for her produce.

“We had hard clay at first. It was terrible. We get free mulch from the tip and we have a big trailer. We’ve put down about 150 loads of mulch, and the soil’s improved.” Also enlisted in the soil-improvement effort is a compost bin painted like a pig. “We call her Gloria the compost pig. When she’s full we say ‘it’s time for her to spill her guts.’“

Sonia’s built an impressive food garden in her backyard and achieved something most only dream of by living off it. Her can-do attitude echoes Edmund Hilary and shows the power of starting with what you have, where you are and working bit by bit.

Featured Plants:

WAMPEE - Clausena lansium

LEMONADE TREE - Citrus cv.

BANANA - Musa cv.

PEACH ‘TROPIC BEAUTY’ - Prunus cv.

JABOTICABA - Plinia cauliflora

TAMARILLO - Solanum betaceum cv. *

PEPINO - Solanum muricatum

NASTURTIUM - Tropaeolum majus *

PASSIONFRUIT ‘JAPANESE HARDSHELL’ - Passiflora cv.

BANDICOOT BERRY - Leea indica

EMU BERRY - Grewia latifolia

BIGNAY - Antidesma bunius

WHITE SANDPAPER FIG - Ficus fraseri

CITRUS ‘RED CENTRE LIME’ - Citrus cv.

NATIVE MULBERRY - Pipturus argenteus

* Check before planting: this may be an environmental weed in your area

Filmed on Kabi Kabi Country | Morayfield, Qld