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Composting!
We have a HUGE compost pile outside that we put yard waste in, but I am looking to get some sort of smaller indoor composter for kitchen waste. I don't want to put the household waste outside since there are a lot of animals who get into it. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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Re: Composting!
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.
I have one of these, but we just use it as an intermediary between the kitchen and the compost bin in the backyard. It does a good job at containing the smell, but I think it is too small for us to actually compost in (or maybe we just produce a lot of compostable waste).
Sorry, I don't have any recommendations. I know I've seen bins that are meant to go under the kitchen sink...that's what I would want if I were composting indoors.
Like bride07 said, no composting takes place in compost crocks. It's just a place to store your kitchen scraps before you take them out to the compost pile.
Your options for indoor as I understand it are vermicomposting (worms) or an electric composter. If you don't want to go those routes, you could try a secure outdoor bin like any of these besides the wire and natural ones. You can put a screen on the bottom to keep animals from digging under it, but worms can still get through.
http://www.gardeners.com/Composters/20706,default,sc.html
We have a large compost pile out in our yard AND a large rubbermaid tote with a lid turned into a compost bin. You can google how to use large plastic totes to make bins with just a nail or screwdriver. We pile in our scraps all winter (which freeze, we're in northern Wisconsin!), and in warm weather, we compost as normal- turning and adding, etc.
About once a year, we lay a big piece of mesh screen on top of our outdoor compost pile and dump the bin contents out, then shake the mesh to run the compost through- large chunks of anything that hasn't yet composted enough sits on top of the screen and gets put back in the bin along with plenty of grass clippings, and the cycle begins again.
You can compost in a bin inside, in a dark place. But without air, you're not going to get anything to decompose- just mold and rot. So the countertop buckets are just a purgatory for scraps, not really meant to actually create compost.