Making Your Own Compost

[whereismynotecard]

Does anyone else here delight in creating dirt?

I put all my fruit and vegetable scraps, used coffee grounds, tea bags, paper towel tubes, and whatnot into a compost bin and make my own compost. It's great for gardening and since there are a million various seeds in there, I often get surprise plants! This year I grew tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in my garden but I ended up with pie pumpkins too... I didn't plant them, but they found their way into my garden. It's so exciting.

There's no reason not to make compost if you're into gardening (unless you don't have space... in which case - where do you grow your plants??)

 

[Iti oj]

Does anyone else here delight in creating dirt?

I put all my fruit and vegetable scraps, used coffee grounds, tea bags, paper towel tubes, and whatnot into a compost bin and make my own compost. It's great for gardening and since there are a million various seeds in there, I often get surprise plants! This year I grew tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in my garden but I ended up with pie pumpkins too... I didn't plant them, but they found their way into my garden. It's so exciting.

There's no reason not to make compost if you're into gardening (unless you don't have space... in which case - where do you grow your plants??)

i had one at my apartment last year turned it into my garden this year

 

[Iti oj]

and i love you and this topic , i talked about it often on radio rf

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

Yep, grow my own fruit, veggies and nuts, and of course make compost from the waste.

 

[Iti oj]

the wife and i are heart broken that we don't have space for our garden and compost

 

[Quintessence]

Don't have a bin yet for various reasons, so I just chuck stuff directly on the ground. It'll rot eventually, and considering I only have recycling for "trash" pickup...

 

[whereismynotecard]

and i love you and this topic , i talked about it often on radio rf

I never knew how exciting making dirt could be until I did it for myself. It's better than just throwing apple cores and old potatoes in the trash... Why not recycle them? I love dirt.

 

[DawudTalut]

Alternate way if space is not there:
http://www.cooklands.com/kitchen-craft-stainless-steel-compost-bin-10190-p.asp

Brews (caution):
http://tipnut.com/plant-brews/

 

[Quintessence]

Letting things rot is especially a good idea if the soil in your area is crap. While the soil around my area shouldn't be crap, it was unfortunately common for developers to rape the topsoil and sell it. I should have well over a foot of deep, black, rich soil born of centuries of tallgrass prairie. Instead I have a ton of clay and sand with little organic matter at all. It's going to take decades to build the soil back up to even a reasonably good level. The way I see it, chucking my "trash" onto my yard helps that process go a little faster.

 

[whereismynotecard]

The soil where I live isn't great. My compost helps a lot.

 

[Iti oj]

Alternate way if space is not there:
http://www.cooklands.com/kitchen-craft-stainless-steel-compost-bin-10190-p.asp

Brews (caution):
http://tipnut.com/plant-brews/

Do you use it? How quickly does it convert scraps to soil?

 

[Iti oj]

Does any one inoculate your compost with 'red wigglers' ?

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

Does any one inoculate your compost with 'red wigglers' ?

They find their own way in from the soil beneath

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

My quarter acre garden was once a peat bog so a good depth of rich dark soil
for produce to grow ... and i use no chemicals for pest or noxious plant control.

Companion planting resolves any problems

 

[Quintessence]

Do tea bags really break down well if just tossed on the ground and not in a proper compost pile? I've been switching to looseleaf only tea at home because I've been concerned about that, but there's still this iced tea I make that is not bagless.

 

[Iti oj]

Do tea bags really break down well if just tossed on the ground and not in a proper compost pile? I've been switching to looseleaf only tea at home because I've been concerned about that, but there's still this iced tea I make that is not bagless.

Idk I had a pile, and I did coffee filters too (unbleached )

 

[savagewind]

Slugs are a problem I have so I put little cups of beer in the garden which they go to instead of going to the plants.

We do compost and I heard that egg shells are good for it.

 

[Iti oj]

Slugs are a problem I have so I put little cups of beer in the garden which they go to instead of going to the plants.

We do compost and I heard that egg shells are good for it.

yes but gotta wash em out
I also make a liquid plant food with coffe grounds and eggshells in a jar soaked for a week or a month turning every other day well use too damn veganism

 

[DawudTalut]

Do you use it? How quickly does it convert scraps to soil?

No.
One can check how long it will take, by making at home though:
http://www.lifesanity.com/make-your-own-kitchen-compost-bin/

 

[Iti oj]

No.
One can check how long it will take, by making at home though:
http://www.lifesanity.com/make-your-own-kitchen-compost-bin/

Thanks!!!