Composting for Beginners

The How Do Gardener ^ | September 13, 2019 | The How Do Gardener

[orsonwb]

VIDEO: Save money, have a more productive garden, healthier soil, and help the environment with composting.

[orsonwb]

Good information about what you can compost and best practices. I'll have a bunch of leaves before too long

[Renegade]

Don’t forget to add a piece of sht Democrat to the compost like.

[major_gaff]

I found this book extremely useful.

Let it Rot

[bankwalker]

a buffet for the groundhogs ...

[orsonwb]

Human waste is not recommended

[orsonwb]

I’ll have to check it out

[TheCipher]

Don’t forget to add a piece of sht Democrat to the compost like.

The New York Slimes will do.

[S.O.S121.500]

Don’t forget to add a piece of sht Democrat to the compost like.

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Lawyers require a pass through the chipper......the hogs are getting too much

[salmon76]

Walking Dead?

[Fresh Wind]

[gaijin]

Good info, but why stop there?

Do everything he says. Then get $10 of Red Wigglers off of Amazon and take the next step:

VERMIcomposting.

Yeah, the worms will eat everything you just composted, as long as it has stopped being hot.

A Red Wiggler eats about a 50% equivalent of it’s bodyweight daily.

If your plants like ordinary compost, then they jump up and down for the same stuff, once processed by worms.

They run away from light, so scrape the stuff off the top, and they’ll go down lower.

[blackdog]

I compost everything but cans, bottles, and meat scraps. I have a special 5 gallon blender and everything goes in. Junk mail, paper towels, coffee grinds, egg shells, vegetable and fruit scraps, etc....Worms love paper by the way.....Once a week I just dump it all in, add water, and make a compost smoothee.

[faucetman]

I compost at the local recycle center. I take my garbage there, they take it to a landfill. Composting 101.

[Uncle Miltie]

Rats love my compost.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wow! You’re hardcore! I thought *I* composted just about everything, LOL!

Bonus: I have a mule - his droppings, when composted and added to the garden beds grow amazing vegetables!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[wtd]

At our local fair, a representative of the dept. of Agriculture presented a demo about a type of destructive “Jumping Worm” which is difficult to distinguish from night crawlers....distinguished by response to being disturbed....the worm jumps wildly when disturbed. This worm’s castings destroy the soil nutrients. Nothing grows in the jumping worm castings. Trees die where the jumping worm settles.

[gundog]

Set a trap or two. Rats compost nicely.

[rockrr]

The feral cats I allow to stay on my property love the rats.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Funny....the Una-Bomber recommended it to me highly.