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I've been lovingly waiting for my little compost pile of leaves, grass clippings, coffee grinds and veggie peels, to break down since last summer. Well, one day about 2 months agoI saw the DH taking a load of fresh cut grass from the front lawn way out back to his regular HUMONGOUS dumping ground (great compost back there), and I told him to just dump it into my little pile which (of course) was closer.
Well, that gave him leave to stop his long walk out back, which was fine by me. Until yesterday evening...when I was sprinkling this huge, outta control pile that has spilled outside any reasonable boundaries...and I had just noticed the freshly cut back yard. And then I remembered that the neighborhood cats had returned some months ago and had been using our back yard as the neighborhood latrine!!!!
Is my wonderful compost beneath his fresh dumpings (that surely contain cat poop) completely lost to any use in my yard? I was planning on turning it this weekend and sifting it for use in my veggie bed, but now all I can envision is bagging it all up and hauling it to the local trash dumpster. Can I save what's on the bottom in any way? Like scrape the fresh layer of grass off and just toss that?
Last summer a neighbor caught all the strays in her trap, and we had peace in the grass for about 4 months. And slowly a whole new crowd of cats has moved in because our next door neighbor refuses to stop putting catfood out for the whole animal kingdom!!!
HELP!!!!!
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