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I want to start composting, or at least try it out & see if it is something that I can get the other members of my household to participate with. I spoke to someone at a garden center and was recommended a plastic composting bin for $90. Can composting be done, at a very small scale, in a regular plastic container while we try it out to see if composting is for us? Any other advice for a beginner is also welcome. Thanks!
I want to start composting, or at least try it out & see if it is something that I can get the other members of my household to participate with. I spoke to someone at a garden center and was recommended a plastic composting bin for $90. Can composting be done, at a very small scale, in a regular plastic container while we try it out to see if composting is for us? Any other advice for a beginner is also welcome. Thanks!
Answer
More people should Compost!.....It's a great way to give back to the earth.....No need for expensive "composters" Just find an out of the way spot in your yard where you wont mind a pile of debris forming. Take all your Raw Kitchen scraps like fruit and Vegetable peelings and leftovers(apple cores, Lettuce + cabbage leaves,banana peels...etc)...NO meats or fats or pasta/rice.or anything cooked pretty much.(tends to attract vermin) ... Now take all your "junk Mail" (no plastic)... like credit card offers,flyers,unread newspapers and shred or rip them into small pieces and layer this(it is your carbon source, also called "brown" material) with the food stuff (your Nitrogen source, also called "green" material) and you will have success-full composting going on in no time.Take all you garden debris when put your garden to bed in the fall and add them to the pile also. keep adding shredded papers/cardboard/dried leavesor "browns" etc.. to the pile along with the daily "green" and keep it wet...thats right... water it in the summer(water helps theings decompose) Dont worry about it over the winter... You will see the pile shrink down over time... go out in spring and turn or "fluff up" the pile and use whatever is ready on the bottom of the pile(looks just like dirt) and start watering it again when you notice it is very dry. and turn it now and then.... My compost pile is behind my shed in the corner of the yard. The shed is on an angle just wide enough to get a wheelbarrow through..... Composting is easy...dont be frightend off by all the people with their technical mumbo-jumbo.I have been doing it for over 20 years.... and P.S.... your pile will decompose weather you turn it or not........Good luck with it! Just rember, the smaller the pieces you put into it, the faster it will compost (decompose)
More people should Compost!.....It's a great way to give back to the earth.....No need for expensive "composters" Just find an out of the way spot in your yard where you wont mind a pile of debris forming. Take all your Raw Kitchen scraps like fruit and Vegetable peelings and leftovers(apple cores, Lettuce + cabbage leaves,banana peels...etc)...NO meats or fats or pasta/rice.or anything cooked pretty much.(tends to attract vermin) ... Now take all your "junk Mail" (no plastic)... like credit card offers,flyers,unread newspapers and shred or rip them into small pieces and layer this(it is your carbon source, also called "brown" material) with the food stuff (your Nitrogen source, also called "green" material) and you will have success-full composting going on in no time.Take all you garden debris when put your garden to bed in the fall and add them to the pile also. keep adding shredded papers/cardboard/dried leavesor "browns" etc.. to the pile along with the daily "green" and keep it wet...thats right... water it in the summer(water helps theings decompose) Dont worry about it over the winter... You will see the pile shrink down over time... go out in spring and turn or "fluff up" the pile and use whatever is ready on the bottom of the pile(looks just like dirt) and start watering it again when you notice it is very dry. and turn it now and then.... My compost pile is behind my shed in the corner of the yard. The shed is on an angle just wide enough to get a wheelbarrow through..... Composting is easy...dont be frightend off by all the people with their technical mumbo-jumbo.I have been doing it for over 20 years.... and P.S.... your pile will decompose weather you turn it or not........Good luck with it! Just rember, the smaller the pieces you put into it, the faster it will compost (decompose)
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