Home Composting – It’s Second Nature! – Part I

I bought two trash cans from Dollor General Store $12.00 each I drilled holes all over bought on line a compost turner for $20.00 It works perfect total cost $32.00.

wonderful vid

I work at a resturant as a prep cook. IM able to take all the coffee grounds, egg shells, fruit and vegtable waste. I use it in my compost pile. This is the first compost pile Ive made

I like his attitude! Good for him!

Thanks for sharing this info.

I surpised at the people in the video composting in those dinky little bins. I have a small yard and I could probably fill that thing up once a month.

GREAT !!!!

@tua17292

no one should be unwanted…

@1too3fore

i think the issue is attraching unwanted critters

Now that our rooftop wind turbines and solar panels are up, I am teaching the kids to compost. Very helpful clip, saved to my bookmarks. Check out my clips if you are interested in wind and solar home stuff. Thanks.

Just keep watching videos on composting and you will learn. Also look up worm composting. That is even better.

there is no issues with adding meat, dairy or oil, just nonsense being spread about. How do you think nature decomposes corpses? I compost everything, just give nature enought time to work through it. There is a great video on thermophillic composting on here that explains it in detail.

i dont believe thats true, after a forest fire new trees sprout in abundance. wood ash is high in nitrogen. every year we would take all the branches and limbs that fall out of the tree and burn the in a big brush pile in spring, it puts nutrients in to the ground, and the unburnt char-coal like wood is good for soil

Ya, disturbing any kind of compost can slow it down. As long as you have enough ventilation/drainage/brown materials it should be fine not to turn it.

Do what you described, but mix in plenty of dry leaves/newspaper/cardboard and stir the pile once in a while. Don’t add any meat, dairy or oil. That’s basically the gist of it.

I think that should be fine, as it originally came from wood. Even if it doesn’t decompose it’ll mix harmlessly into the final product.

You can add to the compost as often as you like. I find it more convenient to collect food in a container in my kitchen and go out to the compost once or twice a week.

Excelent video!!! Is there any way to measure the nutrients in the compost once it´s finished.

After recycling my paper/cans/jars and composting my “greenwaste,” I hardly put out any regular trash.

@James: But theres no detriment either is there? Its still better than throwing it in the trash for something right?

everyday can add a new food scraps and brown?

There is no benefit as the wood has been burned and depleted of all nutrients.

What about fireplace Ash?

No. Just different. Also what most people don’t tell you is that most people who garden/farm alot who use worm castings mix them in as an ingredient to there other compost! Also if you are talking about composting humanure or any other manure product you are going to use a standard bin (and NO TURN) system…

How do you compost? Every week I mow the lawn and come out with bags and bags of grass, and I end up having to refertilize my lawn again. It seems like a wasteful process. From what I get, do you just dump anything organic into an ventilated container and wait for everything to turn into soil?