Comments on: Composting 101

By: Compost it. « My Simple Green Baby

Compost it. « My Simple Green Baby — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:28:09 +0000

[...] start with the most straight-forward option (which, as usual, is also the best choice). Composting is ideal, it turns out. It takes the food straight out of your kitchen and puts it back into the [...]

By: DezDino

DezDino — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:19:07 +0000

Composting is by no means technical, it’s actually super easy! Just throw all your food waste (besides meat and eggs) into something as simple as a hole in the ground. It just needs to have enough carbon so you’ll need to throw in leaves, grass, sticks, and what have you. Bingo Bango a few months later, compost.

By: Zaragoza Bill

Zaragoza Bill — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:34:05 +0000

Great vid, funny and informative. I have been composting for years and echo the thoughts of some here about the simplicity and value of composting. It doesn’t require a fancy do-hicky, only organic matter, oxygen and H2O. A periodic turning hastens the process, but otherwise nature normally takes her course and decomposition will occur in any case.

Re. questions about worms I found this on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website;

“The worms

Now comes the fun part — choosing your worms. No garden-variety worms for you. In fact, you’ll want to avoid nightcrawlers and other garden worms, they don’t survive well in a worm bin.

The best worms for vermicomposting are redworms. The redworm (Eisenia foetida or Lumbricus rubellus) also known as: red wiggler, manure worm, red hybrid, striped worm, fish worm. Whatever it’s called, the redworm is the worm capable of reproducing quickly in captivity, while chomping copious quantities of food waste.”
http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/recycle/compost2.htm#worms

By: Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:22:16 +0000

I’ve been composting and organic gardening since the early 80’s. One thing that you’ll find is that more scraps, peels, cores, etc. are available for your composter if you eat more veggies . . . even more still if you grow as many of those in your own garden as you can. Benefit begets benefit.
I’ve had the local waste management company replace our large trash can with one much smaller and we still only trule discard a few things not compostable or recyclable. I’ve composted with simple piles or mounds and usually they work fine. I currently use a cube-shaped bin with a lid so there isn’t any way for wild rodents or racoons to rumage through it.
I don’t even complain if a neighbor’s dog leaves a “gift” in my front garden. It get’s turned into the composter and works itself right in.
Also don’t forget you can add newspaper. paper towels, cardboard, etc. when lacking dry garden refuse in the “green” months.
Earth worms will find the composter, I don’t find them.
Happy composting / gardening!

By: Roni Filla

Roni Filla — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:27:25 +0000

Worm composting is awesome, and use up daily food scraps, bread, banana peels, apple cores etc. I blended my worm food and poured it on like she did in the video. My worms were happy. I no longer have them contained. They are free in my garden doing their thing.
I like the big sphere the best on the stand for rotation. Yepper that is the one i would want. Now I just toss out all my scraps (bones and meat scraps go to the dogs) in a couple different areas of the garden and leave it to compost on its own. It works too, just that it takes longer, but the worms take care of it eventually. It would be better to be more compost efficient with one of the Composters. Everyone should be composting. There are so many affordably priced. Even for the kitchen counters, and non smelly ones with replaceable charcoal filters. It is not just that it is “GREEN”…but definitely good for our Earth’s soil. No matter where we live.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:07:40 +0000

I’ve been using an outdoor composter (black plastic domed tub variety) for upwards of 7 years – works quite well. I have 20 indoor tubs that I’ve set up for vermicomposting in my community (and for selling the worms). They’re only as grosse as you think they are. After spending as much time as I do with them, it not different than changing diapers on kids or picking up doggie doodoo. Vermicompost is quite different from regular garden compost since it contains extras that make more of a more claylike compost (sticks together well) whereas regular garden composting is looser. Try both methods – its cool to experiment.

By: Moon Dawg

Moon Dawg — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:17:59 +0000

Back home where I’m from, we do it the old-fashoned way– one big heaping pile that we throw a tarp over to keep from the elements. I gues it’s good that now more people are takin an interest in this b/c it creates less waste and it’s good for your crops or plants. If you want a fancy device then fine, but it’s just as easy to DIY.

By: Junnie

Junnie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:14:47 +0000

That globe looking thing that she’s pushing looks like too much work! Composting isn’t the easiest thing, but it also shouldn’t have to be a work out!

By: Molly H.

Molly H. — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:10:43 +0000

I personally want the Nature Mill composter– from what I’ve seen through my own research on the web, as well as through word-of-mouth, Nature Mill is the best choice–plus you can also choose your own color. My main reasons for this is partly because I don’t want to have to go outside all the time to rotate a compost pile, plus I want to be able to collect the compost tea to feed to my indoor plants. Now I just have to save enough money to get one– they are not terribly expensive, but I don’t think Santa’s putting one for me under the Christmas tree this year either

By: Tara Brooks

Tara Brooks — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:52:37 +0000

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