Now that most of the compost tea & sludge are contained, I've showered, and the laundry is running, I can reflect on what went wrong this morning.
In a nutshell, all of it. All of the things I thought might go wrong when trying to strain 20 gallons of compost tea by myself, in my PJs, after a near all-nighter finishing a report, did in fact go wrong.
Did I learn any lessons? Probably not.
Do my veggies appreciate my efforts? They damn well better!
@DrTCombs
This is my standard modus operedi, don't worry. Making liquid feed is sooooo smelly... I don't even bother straining it, just fish out all the comfrey and stick it on the heap then fill up the bottles. I do wear rubber gloves though. And all the flies in the neighbourhood have a party.
@DrTCombs this makes me feel so much less alone in my experience of the same phenomenon.
@DrTCombs I hear that compost tea bathes are the up-and-coming thing at all the best spas these days
@bethsawin Can I charge extra if I provide a puppy to help lick it off your legs and then try to give you a sloppy thank you kiss?
Because I definitely have that option available.
@geoff_green a dramatic reenactment is warranted for this whole toot, drunk history style @DrTCombs
@bikepedantic @DrTCombs if I’d known this was going to take place, I’d have been there to record the whole experience
@geoff_green @bikepedantic I'm like 98% sure I'll make all these very same mistakes again in the not-so-distant future. I have no self-control, and I've already got another bucket brewing.
@DrTCombs @geoff_green it’s not a real mistake til you’ve made it twice
@bikepedantic @geoff_green foresaw it, did it anyway, will probably do it again
will this teach me to have more empathy for DOTs?
nah.
@DrTCombs @geoff_green “ONE MORE LANE SHOULD DO IT!” she bellowed defiantly, as another set of sleepwear took a nitrogen-and-mineral-enriched bath
@bikepedantic @geoff_green You know how I know I'm going to make the same mistakes again?
Because I just went back out to prune the cucumbers, knowing full well that the cucumbers took the brunt of the compost tea/sludge explodapaganza, and wound up with actual sludge inside my actual nostril.
Worth it though because otherwise I might not have found this guy. #gardening
@bikepedantic @DrTCombs @geoff_green My piano teacher always said “make a mistake once and it’s a mistake, but make it twice then it’s jazz!”
@geoff_green It's been a morning, Geoff.
It was one of those situations in which you can foresee, at every step, what's likely to go wrong with your approach, yet you proceed anyway, and sure enough, it goes wrong.
I'm not proud.