learn to compost

I am already environmentally friendly, bundling newspaper/cardboard packaging for recycling, using reusable shopping bags, and cashing in my bottles/cans for the refund, but always wanted to learn more about composting.

I like this tip I read somewhere (maybe even here) and have been using. Line a waste paper basket with a couple of sheets of newspaper. Drop all the plant-based kitchen scraps in it, including tea bags, coffee grounds, and coffee filters. Add the newspaper and scraps on the compost pile, as all of it will compost, and there will be a good ratio of dry matter to wet. (A bucket of water as a chaser seems to be good, too.) This is the easiest, cleanest way to deal with the kitchen scraps I’ve tried.

My garden soil leans towards clay, so I think the coffee grounds will help make space for more air in it once the compost gets to the garden. Some people dig sand and vermiculite into clay beds, don’t they?

I have located an old plastic trash can with a lid that I can recycle as a compost bin. I need holes drilled in it and I’m too busy to stop and do this at the moment. I’ll ask a teenager to do it when I see one.

In the middle of last weeks doom and gloom there was a small ray of sunshine which I was far too moody to appreciate… the compost bin arrived!

It is huge and looks like a Dalek.

Okay, I’ve research bins. I find them kind of expensive for something one can make. I’m a little on the cheap side. Plus before I purchase one i want to learn how to do this on a simple scale to help me understand what I’m paying for. I researched different ways to make one and I’m going to go with the, hopefully, recycled, plastic garbage can method. I liked this one because I could keep a lid on it instead of only throwing a tarp on it. My next check is checking around the garage and shed and see if I already have one I can use. I think I can probably come up with one. Will do this on next pleasant day. I wonder if we do this all winter. I’ll have to look that up.

I have to start looking for a bin. Hopefully in the nest week or two.

I will search internet on this. Probably won’t have time today and that’s okay. Will be able to alot some time tomorrow (maybe tonight if I get everything else done). I’m kind of cheap. Don’t want it to be too expensive.

I’ve always wanted to do this so what a great goal for 43things to help me accomplish.

it takes at least 28 days for delivery and my order is ‘progressing normally’ according to the lady I just spoke to. Delivery due next week then!

Does it take to deliver a Compost Bin? Hmm?

It took 32 seconds to take the money but over two weeks and still no bin

ARGH!