A Compost Guide

[3BM]

bump?

 

[vonforne]

I found a good place to order the Red wrigglers. No cold weather restricted shipping if you live in the south. Since we were talking eirlier in this thread about vermiculture.

http://www.vermitechnology.com/

And Composting 101 needs to be a sticky also.

 

[vonforne]

bumpski

 

[southpaw]

bump

Great information.

 

[Trichome.Kid]

I never stop talking about compost when I answer questions about organic gardening. There's not much out there that beats it. Great thread!

 

[jaykush]

instead of bumping a million times how about putting this in the ofc, its good read for sure. ive been starting one myself. cant beat the homemade compost its some good shit.

 

[BubblinCrude]

I'm considering starting a small compost project, but live in an apartment (have a large patio, though) and am concerned about the smell and attraction of pests. Also, I don't eat meat, so my kitchen waste is limited to...actually, the only food I throw out is molded bread. Anyway, any thoughts/advice regarding the above?

 

[Suby]

A healthy and well aerated composted should never smell, meat and animal by products also are what makes compost piles smell.

Whole wheat breads are fine to compost, carrot shavings, onion caps, left over salads with NO dressing, coffee grinds, alfalfa pellets, corn meal, dried leaves, green leaves, banana peels...

There are alot of things you can throw on your compost pile, make sure to turn it once in awhile and after a feww weeks you can trow a handfull of dolomite lime in there to keep ph under control and add calcium and magnesium to the compost.

S

 

[vhGhost]

STICKY~!!! Great REad

 

[D.Toad]

i tried the small apartment patio compost bin thing (18"x24")and it didnt go so well and after a couple of weeks it got kinda icky and a little stinky . So I decided to build a bin(3'x3'x3') at my inlaws house and just take my stuff over there and also use their yard waste and kitchen scraps . Now my compost gets hot in a day or so and finishes in as little as 4-8 weeks . I have heard of people finishin a batch as fast as 2 weeks . what made the difference was the size if it's too small it wont get hot and if it dont get hot it takes a lot longer to finish . I am going to start me a worm bin here at the apt. I think that will work much better in a smaller area

 

[snakes]

hi all anyone know a good wood ash(kind of wood 2 burn 4 ash)that i can raise the ph of my water with?

 

[3BM]

Any hard wood will do, I like Oak for its bio-dynamic qualities. A little goes a long way!

 

[Finklsteinshtkd]

I know it said that ANYTHING of living origin can be composted...does this mean left over chicken and meat and shit like that...I wanna make sure ALL table scraps can be used because I know you can't use the poo of a meat-eating, carnivorous animal...i.e. cat shit...

 

[quadracer]

theoretically mean and animal waste can be composted, but there are several problems that arise.

First, meat will attract animals: racoons, mountain lions, bears, bobcats, etc.

Second, you would not want to use any animal waste/compost on edible (or smokable) landscape.

A better idea for the waste is digging a hole under some ornamental landscape and compost it that way.