Top Ten Ways to Tell You are Obsessed with Compost

Loose Leaf Tea (Jasmine) Before Becoming Compost

IMG_2195, a photo by Pike-uliar Gardenings on Flickr.

10) You have 4 compost stations: current, finishing, fine browns, and rough browns. Yup...when I saw Britta's Grandma's composting set up, I thought, "that's a bit much." 4 years later, I am almost there.

9) You make eating decisions based on type of compost produced. Mmmm...that bananna/tea/coffee would taste delicious - and make great compost.

8) You make purchasing decisions based on resulting compost.

7) You require...I mean request that your wife bring home tea bags and apple cores from work.

6) You compost your own hair. Is that gross? I think not.

5) On weekends, when the crazy jogger buys a carton of eggs and eats them all raw right out of the shell and leaves them on the sidewalk, you just smile and think, "mmmm...compost."

4) When spending a weekend with friends at a beach house, you force them to compost.

3) You start switching from bag tea, to loose leaf tea because it tastes good, but really you are thinking, "mmmm...better compost."

2) You start singing songs in your head that start off, "every molecule is precious, every cell a star..." while scraping off the tiniest sliver of garlic skin and dropping it into the compost bin.

1) After being quite sick for a while, you run into a neighbour and he jokes, "wow, you looked pretty rough the other day. I thought we would just have to cover you with mulch and add you to the garden" and you say, "mmmmmm....good compost."