How are you composters doing? (Winter/snow)

ArcticFox

So I'm in the NE and we have a TON of snow on the ground.  In past years I had a bucket in the garage, but it got pretty gross.  Right now I have a couple bags of compost inside and it is gross.  I just am not sure I can physically make it to the compost bin, because even though it is just on the side of the house, there is ice on top of snow and I don't have galoshes (just snow boots that come to just below the shin).

Frustrating!  (And no, no way I will stop composting in the winter!)

SuperGreen

We just keep right on composting.  The contents of our bin are frozen solid.  We just keep adding kitchen scraps, we know the freeze-thaw cycle will start to break them down and then WHOOSH they're composted super-quick when it warms up in the spring.

CharlottesWeb

I've had to take a break from composting. Our bins are under 2 feet of snow. Literally. So that's a total of 5 feet of snow next to our garage. It is physically impossible to get to them. The good news is, there's not much to compost right now anyway. I did a lot of freezing/preserving so we don't have the rinds, cores, seeds etc. from fruits and veggies. Can't put meat and cheese in there anyway. And most everything else goes down the garbage disposal. About the only thing ending up in the trash are egg shells and coffee grinds.

jennyk213

Have you looked at the indoor compost bins or vermicomposting?  

We don't compost in the winter.  I don't want to deal with it indoors and can't even see our compost bin right now with all the snow.  I suppose we could shovel a path and the area around it every time it snows but by the time we do the driveway, sidewalk, patio and a path for the dog, we're in no mood to dig out the compost bin.

 

pfal6

Yeah ditto pp. My husband spent all day shoveling/snowblowing the driveway and then he had to do our roof. We have WAY over 2 feet of snow and there was no way I was going to have him shovel more to our compost bin. But the scraps are not as much as they usually are because we eat more frozen veggies in the winter and eat from our freezer too.

Jen&Joe06

We use our city compost system now but before it was implemented we would shovel a path to our composter in the backyard.

hollyfp

We had so much snow and couldn't get back to the pile, so some ended up in the garbage.  I kept it in our kitchen bin for a while but it was getting so nasty, it had to go.  I wasn't going to beat myself up over a couple 1 gallon buckets of stuff.  The snow is melting now so we started back up and will bring it out to the pile again now.

Prulove

My vegetable garden is right behind my house, so if I cant make it to the bin, I just throw my scraps on top of the garden. By Spring time, they will have broken down enough to till them under the soil.

Daisy07gray

Prulove:

My vegetable garden is right behind my house, so if I cant make it to the bin, I just throw my scraps on top of the garden. By Spring time, they will have broken down enough to till them under the soil.

We're trying for this, we moved to our house about 2 weeks before it started snowing- so we're aiming for the garden area and will clean up and till when things start to thaw.