Posted by carene in Growing Stuff on 2013-04-28 14:12:59 UTC

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We made a blunder last year and packed the compost layers in too tight. Oh, and the main brown material was straw.

I used to read about people making icehouses in this area with straw packed around the ice blocks and still having ice in July. Now I believe it.

The compost has been mostly pulled apart now, and spread out to warm up in the sun, but there's still a few very large frozen chunks. Even after yesterday's 20 degrees and sunny.