I want to start composting, what can/should I use from the household? Any help in building a compost bin is greatly appreciated. I've never done this before...
there are many of the bins online depending on what you want to use the compost for and how much you will have. I just bury my scrapes in the garden with a small shovel.
I have some plastic buckets with lids from cat litter, can I make this into a bin for the kitchen, how do I do it?
Use as is. Depending on the size, you may want to keep it under the sink rather than on the counter.
I don't turn my compost either. We have a nice worm farm going on.
You're talking about using these to collect scraps to take outside, right? I thought PF was asking about using them to compost in.
True. However, PF, if you have a grassy area that you want to plant as a garden and are trying to kill the grass, you can layer about 4 sheets of newspaper onto the ground, then top with rocks to weigh it down. Even a nice layer or mulch or compost would work. Then when you're ready to plant, you need to chop up the paper, etc, with a tiller of sorts. However, if you wait long enough (a year or so?), the paper will eventually deteriorate.I would not suggest using full sheets of newspaper as a mulch. If they get too wet or too dry, they become compacted and actually prevent moisture and gas exchange between the soil and the air...
Funny story about worms. I have a friend who lived in Heyworth, IL, a while back. She's a big-time gardener and had the compost bins and the worms and stuff when she lived near me. The first time I visited her in Heyworth she asked me if I wanted to see her "Wrigley Room". I figured she meant "wiggly room" and had build a worm bed in her basement to overwinter some worms and keep them working on composting scraps. Nope! She and her now-deceased hubby are/were huge Cubs fans! What they had done was decorate his basement office like a mini-Wrigley Field, complete with a painted version of the ivy wall and the "355" pole along the left-field line!Composting does work. I have a compost pile outside. But a worm box works better...
Want compost fast...I have climbing roses coming. Those will be on the porch and north corner of the hose. Rose of Sharon along the back fence. North side of the house will have bleeding hearts, hostas and ferns. Lilacs at the front north border, lavender at the south with some poplar trees. A wild flower bed at the front south side of the driveway. Creeping thyme, Irish moss and blue fescue mounds on the street, around the Ash trees. That's it for this year...I have a lot of seeds and will be planting carnation, bachelor buttons, daisies...
Nice!