I feel the need to put all my unwanted vegetable bits in a pile in my yard (or in the neighbor's yard.) I just can't stand the thought of putting something that would otherwise naturally turn to magical dirt into a plastic bag and sending it to a landfill where it would be trapped forever and not be magical.
Our first home, a rented trailer, was in the woods. I could scatter unwanted vegetable bits everywhere and it wouldn't have mattered. So, despite the fact that I wasn't really interested in gardening, I had a fantastic compost pile.
At our second house, also a rental, we had a fenced-in back yard for the dogs. The yard was square and covered in grass and there was no place for a pile of rotting fruits and vegetables. So, when no one was looking, I'd throw my veggie bits in the bushes in the front yard. Sometimes, melon halves from which I'd already dug out all the flesh, just leaving the rind, would roll out from underneath when I threw them into the bushes, and I'd have to jump off the porch and, like, kick the rind back under there. I never noticed any odor, but we did occasionally have bees.
Our current rental also has a fenced-in back yard. It's small, though, and surrounded by abandoned properties, so I just throw veggie bits over the fence into the yard of the house next door where no one lives and there's not even a for-sale sign out front. There was already a pile of leaves and branches and stuff, so it seemed like the perfect place for more rotting vegetation.
Blends right in!
Now it's your turn! Make a pile of rotting vegetables. Or just strew them everywhere. Either way. Not recycling discarded vegetables is just as bad as not recycling plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
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