Compost - Page 3

Thanks everyone for responding and sharing photos! Really helpful!

I tried starting a small compost pile near a woodline by our house to take care of all of our food scrap. The local cats, raccoons, ect have decided that I'm their best friend. It never lasts to become compost.

Originally Posted by Midnight

I tried starting a small compost pile near a woodline by our house to take care of all of our food scrap. The local cats, raccoons, ect have decided that I'm their best friend. It never lasts to become compost.

That's why there's a lot of things not to add into compost, meats, fats, butter, grease, bread, etc etc

Out here Composting is a big business and they give classes for Master Composter / Soil builder.
There is a video on the bottom of the page with part of the class.

The local Zoo composts the animals waste elephant tigers etc. and you have to compete in a lottery to get a truck load of 'Zoo Doo' the guy who runs the program is Dr. Doo . I'm not making this sh*t up. They charge $13 for a 3 gal bucket.





I built a wood and chicken wire bin out of 2 X 4s and put treated on the bottom and lasted a couple years. Here are plans for a three stage composter that is used in local community gardens.

After I started a compost pile at our house I noticed that we had very few if not any bugs that would crawl inside our house. They can hang out by the compost bin and fin for themselves I guess.

Originally Posted by Bear

That's why there's a lot of things not to add into compost, meats, fats, butter, grease, bread, etc etc

Unless you do Bokashi composting. I tried it at home, it works, but is more time consuming that regular composting.

Hey gang,

this came to me when I was thinking about four tires with rims I got for free, and what I Was going to do with the tires and thought to myself, I could just use the tires and stack them 2 high and use them as compost bins.

tsmith, I saw on a thread just recently about farmers using tractor tires, somehow turned inside out to use for feed troughs, might work the same way for compost. Just remember it needs holes, some access for air, and for drainage

Ill look into it Ill try and make one. Maybe ill make a guide too.

I'm a big fan of compost, and have a hard time tossing green wastes into the trash. In my new apartment, I don't have a space for compost (not until we find a house to buy). So in the meantime I have a bag for food scraps that i keep in the freezer. Periodically I'll bury it under a bush somewhere.

Jill does your town/city have a community garden program? Call your city, a lot of places do that now. There's usually a small fee, but you can get that back by growing your own veggies! These places almost always have a compost area that you can use. I have helped several cities start community gardens and composting areas. Cities almost always have a part of town that is starting to get run down. A community garden is perfect for these places, brings all type together and at same time utilize vacant land. I find this exposure illuminates the needs of others.