I’m in. Need info for composting.
One third dirt/leaves/lawn clippings, one third shredded newspapers, one third kitchen scraps minus meat. Water it in and turn it every few days. Worms are beneficial.
For goodness sakes, don’t ever bag your lawn clippings or leaves. Mow them into the lawn and don’t put chemical fertilizers on your lawn.
Me too!
I will use only glass canning jars, or similar, like those large Vlasic pickle jars, my fav....
I'm going to store in these smaller amts because that is sufficient for my family here at my home, but also good for giving to adult children, friends who are in need...
I do use oxygen absorbers...
my basics are rice, salt,sugar, pasta,flour,and some store can items but I'm moving away from canned veggies and spaghetti sauce...canned veggies give little nutrition and I now worry about spaghetti sauce eating away the insides of cans...will buy sauce in glass jars from now on...
at one point I had 140 jars of tuna and several large cans as well, and many, many cans of salmon...
I bought too much progressive soup...
so you learn..
Composting is a great subject. I would love to have a beautiful big compost pile to use in my garden and in my pots.
All I know is you need to keep it moist and turn it often. That’s the problem I have, I’m not strong enough to do that and my husband isn’t interested in helping. I would love to have a place to put all the scraps from the kitchen. I know you also need to add some sort of base material like straw or hay I think. If you keep it moist and turn it, it will stay hot and kill any seeds that are in it. My pile usually ends up growing whatever weeds are in there :-(
John Jeavons’ book is the best, I’m sure his website has the info. I’ve made awesome compost using that method, good enough to eat practically. I’ll see if I can find links.
Here’s the org:
http://www.growbiointensive.org/
A great book, I learned from it years ago:
How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
https://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-More-Vegetables-Possible/dp/0898157676
A couple of videos, there are a lot out there on this method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cEUoN3NgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C1ryn0DHcQ
Amazon sells large European worms... great for composting leaves etc...
Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm European Nightcrawlers Composting and Fishing Worms 2 Lb Pack
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OOD8NW/ref=s9_dcacsd_dcoop_bw_c_x_3_w