Why To Buy A Kitchen Composter
A kitchen composter actually has a very good use, turning scraps into something you can use. This means less garbage in your barrel and in landfills. It also may mean less money spent on fertilizer and compost for your flower or vegetable garden.
A composter is fairly easy to use. You throw your scraps in and punch a few buttons. Leave it for the time specified in the manual and when you open it up again you have compost to help fertilize your yard and gardens.
Of course you can always make compost the old fashioned way. This involves a barrel or bin of some type that you set far away from your house. You then simply throw all scraps into it and wait. Eventually you will get compost like this as well.
One of the biggest benefits to an electric composter is that it helps to reduce smell. Rotting fruits, vegetables, and other food can make for a very nasty odor. You still have some smell with the electric version but there are chemicals you can add to help reduce this smell as well. Some people add enzymes to theirs, this gives the smell of bread dough from the machine.
An electric composted can be put anywhere there is a plug in. This means that you might even put it in your garage or a storage building to keep any smell out of your house. The drawback to this is that adding scraps means totting them to where ever you have your composter located.
Go green today and buy your own kitchen composter. This is a great way to do away with some of the waste that comes from your kitchen and have plenty of natural compost and fertilizer right at your fingertips. Try it today and watch your garden grow.
Composting Your Scraps Can Keep The Planet Green
Gardening can be lots of fun and very rewarding. You get to plant little seeds in the ground, and if you’re lucky, watch them grow into big plants with lots of flowers, fruits, or vegetables. Your green thumb can help your plants come to fruition and that’s a nice reward. But along with your successful planting comes a need to prune, thin out, and cull as well as get rid of the spent plants.
Should waste be put in garbage to be hauled to the landfill. The diseased plants and the weeds should, but everything else can go in your very own compost pile. Composting is an excellent way to take care of your garden pruning, tree trimmings, grass clippings, and even kitchen scraps.
There are 2 very good reasons why you should be composting your scraps.
It keeps the yard and kitchen waste out of the landfills where it has a hard time breaking down with all the plastic and other non-compostable stuff around it.
Composted scraps break-down and turn into a gardener’s secret weapon for next year’s crop… “black gold”. This nutrient-rich compost is just what your tired topsoil needs and is the perfect way to keep the cycle of life going.
To start composting, you use a bin or two, rather than open piles. Bins help the piles to heat up quicker and longer, which helps the waste to decompose faster. Plus, closed bins discourage little critters from coming along and feasting on all the goodies that make up your compost.
You can find a compost bin at your local garden store or online, and while they tend to be on the expensive side, they may make you some good compost faster. You can also make your own compost bins with instructions you can fine online or using your own imagination. You can even drill some holes in a plastic garbage can for aeration and use that. When it’s time for the pile to be turned, fasten the lid down with a bungee cord, lay it on it’s side and roll it around some.
Once you have your compost bin, you need to create a pile of brown, green, and soil with manure. Brown is Dead leaves, prunings, spent plants, smallish twigs. Green is Veggie scraps, coffee grounds, crushed egg shells, used tea bags from the kitchen.
Bones and other meat leftovers do not belong in your compost pile because they attract wildlife.
If your compost pile smells, then you need to adjust the amounts of what you have in it. The rule of thumb is to add equal amounts of the brown, green, and dirt. When you throw something on the pile, like peelings from your potatoes and carrots, plus the broccoli your son refused to eat, then add some dirt and brown leaves as well.
It might take some time for your compost to break down, so you might want to have two bins going. One will be the bin that is older and is busy turning into compost, the other is a bin for the newest stuff.
When composting your scraps is ready, you’ll know it. It will be a dark color, smell good, and look like the prettiest top soil you have ever seen. Go ahead and spread it around your plants and garden and watch it grow. Compost is a natural fertilizer that your plants will love.
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Home Made Compost Tumbler
*How to make a compost tumbler from a food grade pickle barrel. Free Plans at http://dixiegrilling.com/tumbler.htm This compost tumbler with it’s internal aeration system speeds the composting process. Great way to get compost for your garden without the mess and strength required to turn a traditional compost bin. Concealed barrels picks unwanted critters from hanging out at your compost pile. Excellent for urban gardeners with restrictions on space. Can be made very inexpensively. Link to free plans and bill of material at the end of the video.
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Composting: A Buyer’s Guide to Compost Bins
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/accessories.html There are many different styles of compost bins one can choose from, ranging from stationary, to compost, to worm composters, to indoor composters and so on. Then on top of that, there’s different models and styles, with different capacities, and tons of accessories to go along with them. What we’ve done is grouped everything into sections and then we explain the different styles of compost bins and uses. That’s right – we’ve created a comprehensive buyer’s guide to compost bins for you. This is actually an easy process, it’s just a matter of deciding what kind of bin you want, and then where you want to place it. Learn all about compost bins in this crash course introduction to compost bins. If you’re looking for more information and want to see many of these great composters, please click the link at the top of this description. There’s a wealth of information about composters there, and plenty of links to some of the different composters in this video. Hope this helps, and happy composting!
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How To Make an Indoor Worm Compost Bin
Worm composting is easy to do indoors and you don’t need to pay hundreds of dollars for a fancy vermiculture system or worm tower, worm condo… whatever they call them. Three cheap plastic storage bins is all you need to make your own indoor worm compost system. Learn more at http://www.livingasimplelife.com .
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Naturemill Automatic Indoor Composter – Part 3
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In part 3 of the series, we show you the Naturemill Automatic Indoor composter as we have been at it through the first week. This video shows the progress that has been made on the original batch of compost, and offers a few suggestions of what to do in case there is a smell to your compost or what to do if your compost is a little too green-rich.
Watch the entire series of videos from the start, and check back for part 4 to see how we are coming along with our batch of compost!
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NatureMill Automatic Indoor Composter – Demonstration part 1
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This automatic indoor composter is a fantastic way to make your compost indoors! It can be set on a timer, or on an continuous cycle to mix and rotate your food scraps into rich compost (when brown and green material is mixed together properly).
This video will be the first of a series into which we demonstrate the usage of the composter, and actually make a batch of compost for you, to see how it works. This will give you a full view of how to work and operate the composter.
For more information on this composter, click the link at the top of the page.
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Starting a Compost Pile
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Space-saving And Portable Compost Bin
Compost Bin is a large and neat container where matters which have the ability to decompose like food and other wastes are placed. This particular receptacle, which replaces the compost pit, will turn these waste matters into compost which is useful for the soil and plants. An organic fertilizer is the end product coming out of the bin.
Every day we eat food that is produced by plants which come in different sizes and peculiar form depending on their varieties. They can grow and become big shrubs or tall trees some of which may bear fruits, while other species creep up like the vines to render edible crops. There are some of these varieties that produce fruits or crops which are grown underneath the soil like the root crops, while others are grown only with edible leaves and flowers normally found above the ground.
Almost all types of edible plants are grown by the soil whether they are found below the ground or they become clinging vines rising high above the ground. There are also species which are likened to parasites such as the lichens that grow on other plants like tress, but these trees are still rooted to the ground where they get their nourishment. There are, however, aerial types but these are usually the ornamental ones.
All these edible living things are products dependent on the soil where they are rooted. The soil gives out minerals and other substances needed by plants to survive which will cause the soil, sooner or later, to be dry and deprived of desire nutrients that the plants need. It is therefore important to add fertilizers to supplement and aid the soil for the sake of the growing elements on it to sustain and survive.
You can help produce good soil by using an organic fertilizer that is a by-product of the Compost Bin. In that way, we nurture healthy plants which can be very pleasing to the eye.
