inquiring minds want to know...well, rather a lot this morning, actually.
1) Food query: This week's CSA installment included a small pumpkin. (By "small" I mean "about the size of a child's bowling ball".) The pumpkin is very cute, and another person might possibly use it for, say, a centerpiece. I don't decorate with food, however - not since that incident with the exploding blender, anyway - and I would prefer to make
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You can also cut up the pumpkin and bake it until it is soft, take off the peel (peel AFTER cooking! AFTER! Do not listen to idiots who tell you otherwise), and make excellent pumpkin pie out of it.
Definitely save & bake the seeds though. The ones you buy are just never as good. Make sure to salt them before you bake them.
Apartment dwellers compost with worms. It really works, my friend used to do it. However, compost is useless unless you grow things with it; so either you have to have a garden/a lot of plants in pots or you should find someone with a garden and establish that yes, they really will take any compost you produce off your hands, before you set it up. Alternatively, you could find out if your city takes compost materials as well as garbage and recycling; San Francisco has separate green bins for that, but of course that's San Francisco.
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God. How can you go wrong with pumpkin, mushrooms, curry, and dairy? My mouth is literally watering.
Ah, yes - compost with worms. I read about that yonks ago, but had entirely forgotten about it until you reminded me here. And yes, I can see where creating compost with no destination in mind would be sort of silly. I don't have a garden, and although I have aspirations of becoming the sort of apartment-dweller who does container gardening I have not yet reached that point. Hm...
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