Talk to me about composting.

Laughing At You

Yeah yeah, I could swagbucks it but I'd rather hear your stories.  How did you get started?  What bin do you use?  Where do I start?  Help! ;-)

pixieprincss

Here are my composting blog entries.

Jen&Joe06

This is what we did

hollyfp

We made one with pallets from DH's work like this:

http://www.livingoffgrid.org/used-wooden-pallets-or-skids-making-free-easy-compost-bins/

http://www.digitalseed.com/composter/bins/palletbin.html

It was really easy and free! (just make sure your pallets are not pressure treated wood) 

SuperGreen

No clicky link to a blog for me, so I'll write it all out.  We bought a $25 composting bin from Craiglist.  If you look at the backyard photo in my bio (really outdated, sorry), it's the doghouse-looking green thing.  We scraped the grass off a segment of our yard, and placed the composter there.  The rhyme is "equal parts green and brown help to break the compost down."  So we add all our kitchen scraps (those are greens), and shredded leaves or newspaper (brown).  We stir after every addition, and add water about once a week or so.  I have a tub sitting under our patio furniture to catch rainwater, I normally empty that in the compost.  It should be moist.  We got finished compost after about 6 months, and now that it's really going (we're in year 3) I regularly take a tub of compost out of it to add to our raised beds or front decorative plants.  Everything is growing like gangbusters, and we've reduced our landfill impact by a significant amount.