Comments on: What is your favorite composter or composting method? http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method Kitchen Composter Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:26:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lynn http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method/comment-page-1#comment-1551 Lynn Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:16 +0000 http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method#comment-1551 I like the 3x3x3 foot black plastic bin as a low-maintenance way to dispose of kitchen scraps and some yard waste. I've had it for several years and emptying it out seems pretty much optional. It fills up in the winter but then in the spring with a stronger sun and a few warm days the contents decrease in size by about 1/3 and by this time of year it is just 1/2 full. I don't really do anything to it, except put in a sprinkle of finished compost (from my other pile - described below) now and again to make sure the right microbes are in there. We have goats and llamas (and a barn to clean out), which is great material for making big piles that heat up and provide generous amounts of compost within a season (turning with a tractor helps). These two methods of composting serve different functions for me. Most of the big piles of barn waste turned compost go directly in the vegetable garden to help out my sandy soil. The black bin functions more or less as a way to keep organics out of landfills (eventually I will empty it). I like the 3×3x3 foot black plastic bin as a low-maintenance way to dispose of kitchen scraps and some yard waste. I’ve had it for several years and emptying it out seems pretty much optional. It fills up in the winter but then in the spring with a stronger sun and a few warm days the contents decrease in size by about 1/3 and by this time of year it is just 1/2 full. I don’t really do anything to it, except put in a sprinkle of finished compost (from my other pile – described below) now and again to make sure the right microbes are in there.

We have goats and llamas (and a barn to clean out), which is great material for making big piles that heat up and provide generous amounts of compost within a season (turning with a tractor helps).

These two methods of composting serve different functions for me. Most of the big piles of barn waste turned compost go directly in the vegetable garden to help out my sandy soil. The black bin functions more or less as a way to keep organics out of landfills (eventually I will empty it).

]]> By: tiberius http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method/comment-page-1#comment-1509 tiberius Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:42:59 +0000 http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method#comment-1509 I throw a buncha crud into a pile. Grass clippings go into the garden directly (mulch) but everything else gets piled up in a disordered mess five feet around. If the pile of crud gets too big I burn it, turn the ashes in and pile on more crud. After two years the pile of crud gets roto-tilled into the garden, a new pile of crud starts. Very good gardens come from my piles of crud.<br><b>References : </b><br> I throw a buncha crud into a pile. Grass clippings go into the garden directly (mulch) but everything else gets piled up in a disordered mess five feet around. If the pile of crud gets too big I burn it, turn the ashes in and pile on more crud. After two years the pile of crud gets roto-tilled into the garden, a new pile of crud starts. Very good gardens come from my piles of crud.
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]]> By: Hookwinked and Bamboozled http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method/comment-page-1#comment-1508 Hookwinked and Bamboozled Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:03:59 +0000 http://www.kitchencomposterblog.com/worm-composting-bin/what-is-your-favorite-composter-or-composting-method#comment-1508 I just started composting for the first time. I think it's too early to tell if it's "working" but I have a bin i got from walmart. It's not the one I wanted or even close to the idea I had in mind, but I kept putting it off and was tired of just piling stuff up in my backyard so I saw it one night and just grabbed it so I could get started.<br><b>References : </b><br>http://di1.shopping.com/images/di/50/45/51/48684f77514c5a51335f335f575a6456416f77-100x100-0-0.jpg I just started composting for the first time. I think it's too early to tell if it's "working" but I have a bin i got from walmart.

It's not the one I wanted or even close to the idea I had in mind, but I kept putting it off and was tired of just piling stuff up in my backyard so I saw it one night and just grabbed it so I could get started.
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