Maybe not the best way, but this year I made a bin using left over wire fencing. I haven't bothered turning it yet. Started with some browns from around the yard. Have been throwing in kitchen and garden scraps in all summer. I'm actually surprised at how it seems to sink down. Smell is bearable and I see plenty of insect life around it. Will probably leave it for the winter and do a turn over in the spring.
by Exciting-Ordinary4
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That’s how I do it. I love filling it up and then coming back to it in a couple days to see it shrunk to half its former glory!
Shove some stakes into it and occasionally pull them out and shove them in elsewhere and let nature do the turning.
Hopefully that’s not right next to your house
Can you move it a bit from your house? You don’t want bugs, but this works well for us. Toss a few buckets of leaves or grass clippings on it and wait.
I tend to be more active with my compost and turn it more often, but I’m all for lazy composting if that’s what you prefer. Even if you don’t really want to turn the compost, I think it’s better to bury the kitchen scraps in the pile. If I had an open pile I was just piling scraps on top of where I live, I’d have rats, opossums, and raccoons every night and flies all day long. It would be a public nuisance. One thing you can do is have a pile of browns sitting next to the pile, and every time you add scraps, just scoop some browns on top. Or what I tend to do is get a big pile of wood chips to start off with and add my scraps into the pile and bury them inside the chips. They break down very quickly.
That Tim Hortons cup is not compostable
You do realise even paper cups often have a thin plastic sheet?
I may do this with the half-done stuff in my overfull compost tumbler.
Yea all good except you have some trash in there it looks like lol
Can someone explain the general idea of this.
Just because in the UK we get our waste collected, and a bag of compost is the same price as a cup of coffee.
What’s the deal?
What do you do with that much compost, and is there any food waste you can’t put in there ?
Sorry, just realised I’m in the composting sub, god knows why I got directed here. I thought I was in Casual UK.
As you were folks!
I think it IS the best way. Great ventilation. Easy to move. You can peel it off completely and then access all sides of it in order to pitchfork the pile and turn it. Cheap. Easy. Contains the pile and allows you to build a core. Seriously, don’t take any side-eye from people who spent $150 on a fancy tumbler. Your setup is better: it will get the drainage and worm infiltration benefits of a ground pile without sprawling out sideways like an uncontained ground pile will.
Finally someone with a setup that makes sense!
Do you have lots of rats around?
Get that dirty trash out of there don’t be that lazy come on now
Not compost. Junkyard. Get mean dogs.
Take the trash out of your pile.
There are some businesses that use cups that are compostable, *but* that means *industrially* compostable. Unless you have a setup that allows you to get very high temperatures (which most home gardeners don’t have), don’t put cups in your home compost. Compostable cups should go into your food recycling bin for kerbside collection.
The raccoons and bears in my area would have a good time in this pile. I have to bury new scraps deep and keep the pile hot.