Urban Composting with Bokashi Part 1
EcoTools presents Urban Composting With Bokashi Part 1 – shows what to do when your kitchen composter is full. The kitchen composter is a fermentation container that turns food scraps into valuable compost! Just add your food scraps, sprinkle with Bokashi, and seal tight. Since it ferments — as opposed to decomposes — there are no malodors, just a light fermentation smell. Harvest the tea after a few weeks and bury the fermented compost in the garden whn full. Your garden will thrive …
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Compost Worms
My compost worms. More info: www.flickr.com
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build a garden composter?
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00148.asp
http://www.perc.ca/waste-line/rrr/compost/faq.html
The first link is on how to build your own composter and teh second one is a good sight with facts, tips and FAQs on composting.
If you want small scale composting, there is a methoid of using a smaller plastic bin, a package of fishing worms and your compostables. this bin can even be placed under a counter or on your back porch. use a hand spade for occasional turning.
what can I put in my garden composter?
Leaves, straw, coffee grinds and tea bags, grass clippings, fall leaves, animal manures(cow, horse, pig, chicken) do not use cat or dog droppings, fruit rinds-skins-pits, newspaper and cardboard, ashes from the fireplace and dryer lint. Pretty much anything that consists of organic compounds. But don't use meat products because they lure in unwanted pests. Just remember to keep the compost pile moist and turn using a pitch fork on a regular basis so oxygen can reach the middle of the pile and allow the decomp to keep happening.
do you need special worms for a worm compost?
I want to set up a small worm compost to show the kids how it works and they want to have 'pet worms'. Looking at a few various sites, they all say to use red wiggler worms. Will it work if we just use worms that the kids find in the garden? Do you really need a special type of worm?
The red wigglers work the best for commercial operations or if you are really wanting the composting to work fast. You can use other worms and you can draw worms into a compst heap by placing the leafy stems from Oregano plants onto any compost heap – it makes them come up into the heap and go crazy! LOL
Seriously, it is like a horror show! Scared the daylights out of me the first time I put oregano stems on the heap and came back two days later to add some more material – I moved the oregano stems and underneath there was this solid sheet of writhing worms! I am not sure what compound it gives them but it made them pretty wild for a big pile of worms!
Or you can just collect them after a rain when they are out on the sidewalks trying to not drown.
what is the best way to compost kitchen scraps in an apt. with almost no yard?
I have a small cement patio. What would be a good type of container to use? Anyone know any good websites to check out? There seem to be so many!
check out compostumbler.com They have composter called the "back porch compostumbler." This might meet your needs.