That’s not compost. Compost looks like soil, not dried out food
OkHelicopter6054
Egg shells ? bury them under the soil
Kimmm711
You’re going to end up with a stinky situation & fruitfly infestation. Composting takes time, a mix of “green” (veg/fruit scraps, coffee grounds, eggshells) & “brown” (dry leaves, grass cuttings, shredded paper) and turned over the course of several months to make compost. It should look like soil, then stir in to soil *before* planting.
literallymoist
Sprinkle some crushed leaves on top. Everything composts eventually.
ethancbaileywork
This isn’t compost lol
Stinky__Person
That’s not compost that’s a health hazard if you’re planning to eat it.
hoorfrost
Your plants are going to turn yellow and suffer immensely bc the food that breaks down will bind up nutrients from the soil and make them unavailable.
OrganicCageFreeDog
Look, you need the food product to break down before you add it to your plants. Go on YouTube, tons of guides on composting.
emayeareseaeyeel
Boil your eggshells to release the calcium! Then cool down the water and use that š
kawaiian
Maāam with all due respect this is a salad
Ramiroruelas
Better would be to dig a deep hole and bury it
Spiffy313
This thread is a dumpster fire š¤£šæ
MiserableLychee
Iām not gonna make fun because I did this before I knew better. Had eggshells and stuff out in the garden and it stunk up the place and attracted bugs. At least this looks fixable.
IllustriousGrowth798
You need to cover it with soil so no food scraps see daylight else pests will come.
Professional-Advice9
As other people have stated, you need to allow your compostable items to decay properly before adding them as an amendment.
Compost is broken into two sections
Greens add nitrogen- fresh cuttings from plants, so tomato stems and fresh fallen leaves, grass clippings, rotten/rotting/discarded fruit, vegetables, egg shells, dying(not sick) plants, halloween pumpkins and gourds, herbivore poop, herbs and spices (cayenne and hotter will keep animals away until it breaks down)
And browns, which are labeled as carbon- sawdust, woodchips, broken up sticks, dried grass/straw/leaves, compostable cardboard and paper(not all is), cereals, nuts(NO WALNUTS), stale bread, cooked plain white rice and pasta(some people say its green but it depends on who you ask), used peat moss and coir, and oats
Things like oranges and limes (anything with lots of citric acid) should be avoided in large amounts to not increase the acidity too much, any glossy paper or cardboard is not completely compostable or safe, the chemical they spray on it to make it glossy is semi toxic (sometimes its fine for a small amount, I’ve gotten away with it just fine). I also throw my joint/bong ash and burned wood into the bin too, but i dont know if it’s actually good for compost.
It only takes 6 weeks to 3 months for compost to form depending on the type you’re doing, hot, cold, and a special third kind you should wait for until you mastered one or both “regular” methods of composting. It’ll slowly turn brownish and crumbly and will at first smell rotten and gross, then slightly sweet and very earthy as it finishes off. I use a roughly 30 to 1 ratio on carbon to nitrogen, I’ve heard of people doing 50/50, but i haven’t done it successfully. Make sure to turn it once a day to a week, depending on how involved you wanna be. Alternatively, if you want to do a modified method, you can just dig up an area in your garden beds and bury the dead plant/fruit/eggshell/ash/etc materials deep, it will break down fairly quick, but you won’t have a well rounded compost to amend your soil and you will have a very disturbed bed.
If you do it like it is pictured, you may not only get bad results for your plants, but it will smell bad, too. If you do it, how i suggest or do some research, you should be a okay.
saintschatz
ummmm…shouldn’t compost be…idk…composted?
Most people i know who do compost have a pile in their yard that they do the actual composting in. This pic just looks like you are throwing garbage on your onions. The whole point of composting is to let the biodegradable shit biodegrade. It’s not all that useful to the plants until it is actually broken down from insects/bacteria/fungi breaking it down.
stunshot
If you are going to directly put food waste in the garden you should bury it so worms will get at it easily instead of flies.
LASubtle1420
egg shells and coffee for acidity are okay to put on raw and wait but maybe burry in orix… however… it still won’t be compost (as was mentioned) banana peels are okay too… but as stated by others .. pests may come. Try boiling the egg shells and banana peels then using the water.
murphdurph25
lol
nastyydog
wtf
sirajtech-org
Wow
MedranoChem
That shits gonna rot and some plants donāt like rot
chilldrinofthenight
OP: Obviously you mean well, but your kitchen scraps need to break down a lot more than this. When the scraps are still so raw, they aren’t yet fulfilling their purpose of feeding nutrients into your soil. (We chop up our banana peels, orange peels, and I see you’re good about crushing your egg shells.)
As other Redditors have commented —– go on YouTube and watch videos re: how to make your own wonderfully soil-enriching compost. Enjoy. It truly is amazing, the entire process.
Pro tip: Don’t mind the bugs you see scampering around in your compost pile or bin. Those critters all help, in their own way, with creating compost. My compost bin right now is *loaded* with sow bugs, ants, earwigs, etc. Everybody is hard at work, eating and pooping.
Another tip: Horse manure is great for compost piles, with green manure really helping heat things up. Just be sure you get your manure from horses who aren’t allowed to feed on weeds. I made the mistake once of getting manure from pastured horses. Never again.
bidoville
Come join us over at r/composting and learn some better strategies for knowing when your compost is finished.
This is still too whole to be considered compost.
Compost is a homogeneous mix of decomposed organic matter. When itās decomposed and finished, you canāt tell what it was before.
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That’s not compost. Compost looks like soil, not dried out food
Egg shells ? bury them under the soil
You’re going to end up with a stinky situation & fruitfly infestation. Composting takes time, a mix of “green” (veg/fruit scraps, coffee grounds, eggshells) & “brown” (dry leaves, grass cuttings, shredded paper) and turned over the course of several months to make compost. It should look like soil, then stir in to soil *before* planting.
Sprinkle some crushed leaves on top. Everything composts eventually.
This isn’t compost lol
That’s not compost that’s a health hazard if you’re planning to eat it.
Your plants are going to turn yellow and suffer immensely bc the food that breaks down will bind up nutrients from the soil and make them unavailable.
Look, you need the food product to break down before you add it to your plants. Go on YouTube, tons of guides on composting.
Boil your eggshells to release the calcium! Then cool down the water and use that š
Maāam with all due respect this is a salad
Better would be to dig a deep hole and bury it
This thread is a dumpster fire š¤£šæ
Iām not gonna make fun because I did this before I knew better. Had eggshells and stuff out in the garden and it stunk up the place and attracted bugs. At least this looks fixable.
You need to cover it with soil so no food scraps see daylight else pests will come.
As other people have stated, you need to allow your compostable items to decay properly before adding them as an amendment.
Compost is broken into two sections
Greens add nitrogen- fresh cuttings from plants, so tomato stems and fresh fallen leaves, grass clippings, rotten/rotting/discarded fruit, vegetables, egg shells, dying(not sick) plants, halloween pumpkins and gourds, herbivore poop, herbs and spices (cayenne and hotter will keep animals away until it breaks down)
And browns, which are labeled as carbon- sawdust, woodchips, broken up sticks, dried grass/straw/leaves, compostable cardboard and paper(not all is), cereals, nuts(NO WALNUTS), stale bread, cooked plain white rice and pasta(some people say its green but it depends on who you ask), used peat moss and coir, and oats
Things like oranges and limes (anything with lots of citric acid) should be avoided in large amounts to not increase the acidity too much, any glossy paper or cardboard is not completely compostable or safe, the chemical they spray on it to make it glossy is semi toxic (sometimes its fine for a small amount, I’ve gotten away with it just fine). I also throw my joint/bong ash and burned wood into the bin too, but i dont know if it’s actually good for compost.
It only takes 6 weeks to 3 months for compost to form depending on the type you’re doing, hot, cold, and a special third kind you should wait for until you mastered one or both “regular” methods of composting. It’ll slowly turn brownish and crumbly and will at first smell rotten and gross, then slightly sweet and very earthy as it finishes off. I use a roughly 30 to 1 ratio on carbon to nitrogen, I’ve heard of people doing 50/50, but i haven’t done it successfully. Make sure to turn it once a day to a week, depending on how involved you wanna be. Alternatively, if you want to do a modified method, you can just dig up an area in your garden beds and bury the dead plant/fruit/eggshell/ash/etc materials deep, it will break down fairly quick, but you won’t have a well rounded compost to amend your soil and you will have a very disturbed bed.
If you do it like it is pictured, you may not only get bad results for your plants, but it will smell bad, too. If you do it, how i suggest or do some research, you should be a okay.
ummmm…shouldn’t compost be…idk…composted?
Most people i know who do compost have a pile in their yard that they do the actual composting in. This pic just looks like you are throwing garbage on your onions. The whole point of composting is to let the biodegradable shit biodegrade. It’s not all that useful to the plants until it is actually broken down from insects/bacteria/fungi breaking it down.
If you are going to directly put food waste in the garden you should bury it so worms will get at it easily instead of flies.
egg shells and coffee for acidity are okay to put on raw and wait but maybe burry in orix… however… it still won’t be compost (as was mentioned) banana peels are okay too… but as stated by others .. pests may come. Try boiling the egg shells and banana peels then using the water.
lol
wtf
Wow
That shits gonna rot and some plants donāt like rot
OP: Obviously you mean well, but your kitchen scraps need to break down a lot more than this. When the scraps are still so raw, they aren’t yet fulfilling their purpose of feeding nutrients into your soil. (We chop up our banana peels, orange peels, and I see you’re good about crushing your egg shells.)
As other Redditors have commented —– go on YouTube and watch videos re: how to make your own wonderfully soil-enriching compost. Enjoy. It truly is amazing, the entire process.
Pro tip: Don’t mind the bugs you see scampering around in your compost pile or bin. Those critters all help, in their own way, with creating compost. My compost bin right now is *loaded* with sow bugs, ants, earwigs, etc. Everybody is hard at work, eating and pooping.
Another tip: Horse manure is great for compost piles, with green manure really helping heat things up. Just be sure you get your manure from horses who aren’t allowed to feed on weeds. I made the mistake once of getting manure from pastured horses. Never again.
Come join us over at r/composting and learn some better strategies for knowing when your compost is finished.
This is still too whole to be considered compost.
Compost is a homogeneous mix of decomposed organic matter. When itās decomposed and finished, you canāt tell what it was before.