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 :-(
You really don’t have to turn it, although that will help it make quicker. I have a composter that looks like a big trash can with a swing lid. It has no bottom. You put yard waste such as tree limbs that have fallen on the ground in the very bottom.
I put my kitchen scraps in there daily, add a few handfuls of dry leaves, wet coffee grounds, and dump a pot of soil in it whenever the plant has been harvested. It has air holes all the way up on all sides.
At the bottom it has a door that raises up. You just take a garden scoop and take the bottom dirt out.
Now to hurry it up, the container can be taken off. The big items on top set aside and stirred then put back to hurry it up, but it’s not needed. Works fine without the effort.
One of the best gardening books I’ve ever read is by John Jeavons (sp?), the title is something like “How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Can Imagine On Less Land Than You Can Believe”. I’ll find it on Amazon and post a link. I learned how to make compost from that book. No turning needed, and it works fast and great.
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Aha, here it is, I didn’t get the name quite right:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-More-Vegetables-Eighth/dp/160774189X
I’m in. Please add me to your Ping list.
Thanks.
We use one of those plastic Kitty litter boxes to contain all the compostable scraps to empty into the pile at our convenience...
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