Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
I have no reason to want or need a "compost" garbage pile complete with various critters. Makes my skin crawl to think about it.
Ive tried to compost 3 times in the past 10 years and every time mice infested it so no more. It goes down the GD or into the trash.
Consider vermicomposting - composting with worms. One of my sister master gardeners did a talk on this topic last spring and it was fascinating. She keeps the bin in her kitchen. Because the worms work fast, there's no odor at all. These are wood, but plastic bins for this purpose are also available.Oh, I hadn't thought of that. I'll be living without electricity, so I wanted to compost everything, but being out in the boonies, I'll probably have mice all over. And if I don't have mice, I'll have coyotes.
I'm just grateful Western Washington doesn't have any venomous snakes. I had enough of the rattlesnakes in California.
Composting is a great way to get beautiful soil full of nutrition for a home garden and flower pots. Mine is in the back corner of the yard. The ground is also full of various critters, so the compost pile isn't much different. It also keeps all the kitchen scraps and yard waste out of the landfill.I have no reason to want or need a "compost" garbage pile complete with various critters. Makes my skin crawl to think about it.
Consider vermicomposting - composting with worms. One of my sister master gardeners did a talk on this topic last spring and it was fascinating. She keeps the bin in her kitchen. Because the worms work fast, there's no odor at all. These are wood, but plastic bins for this purpose are also available.
Here's more information: Worm Composting Basics - Cornell Composting
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You might not say that if you saw her gardenThat woman needs a GD and her head examined. Ohhhhhh Worms for kitchen garbage in the kitchen??
The one I had back in the '70s would wake the dead, never mind the neighbours!Back in 1999 when I bought my condo, I was told GDs were not permitted. Shortly after moving in, I was reading over the rules and regulations and came across a single sentence that made my day. "Food waste disposers are permitted"! I literally stopped what I was doing and went out and bought and installed a GD that afternoon.
Her garden wouldn't change my mind about her nasty kitchen. No way.
Reminds me of my friend Gail. We knew each other in OH, but she and her hubby made the first job-transfer move to a small town south of Bloomington-Normal, IL. The first time I visited was late fall. When giving me the house tour, she took me down their basement to show me how her hubby had set up his home office. As we walked through the main part of the basement, she stopped to point out her large bin of very friable earth...and her happy red wrigglers that were enjoying their winter quarters. There was a fine mesh screen on top of the bin, just in case any of them wanted to jump for joy.Consider vermicomposting - composting with worms.
...Worms for kitchen garbage in the kitchen??
A friend of mine does it. There is no odour. Once she got surprise tomatoes in an area where she had spread worm compost. Mostly, she uses it for her indoor plants.Consider vermicomposting - composting with worms. One of my sister master gardeners did a talk on this topic last spring and it was fascinating. She keeps the bin in her kitchen. Because the worms work fast, there's no odor at all. These are wood, but plastic bins for this purpose are also available.
Here's more information: http://compost.css.cornell.edu/worms/basics.html
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Cooking Goddess;1557173 You know said:Kayelle[/B], the idea may seem yucky to you, but it's probably a more sanitary condition than having a dog running around a kitchen, or a cat that just can NOT be trained to stay off of the counter (solution: get a cat that can't jump that high ), or a myriad of other pets that are considered fine to wander through a home and our hearts. At least the worms are contained, not like cats or dogs...or bunnies...or ferrets...
I'm the same way with cats in the kitchen..I get wormy composting and appreciate the good they do, but having them in the kitchen and knowing they are there would be a turn off to my appetite.
I never see garbage disposals. I think they are illegal in Quebec. Not just the water usage, but all that extra organic matter in the sewage costs extra to process and can cause algal blooms in the water ways.