Composting

Let's make this the place to share all our questions, ideas and results of any type of composting we can think of. Whether you've been composting for decades or just forgot to empty the green bin and doing bokashi by accident, let us know how and why you do things the way you do. Share your stories and your photos. Your designs, or designs you found online or perhaps in some cool old book you stumbled upon. Anything goes.

I used to put tea bags in my Vermicompost containers, but the bags always end up not completely composted & blowing around the yard. I think it is because the actual bags have plastic.

Has anyone else seen this hr. program about a Japanese older man who teaches young people how to compost all undesired plants/weeds? Does anyone else compost weeds, without getting germination?

Might seem funny & strange, but that exactly what I used to do. When removing the Non-Indigenous Red Worms from my collecting of their castings, I would keep the largest ones. Afterwards I would planet them in our gardens & cover them with a top, for a day or two, from predators. Since they simply replace numbers, with lesser biggest worms to eat the food, never really an interruption in producing castings & worm tea.

I tried regular/traditional composting, but never as successful as Vermicomposting with Non-Indigenous Red Worms. For a while now, I have wanting to do better by Using Indigenous South Fl.’s Earth Worms in Vermicomposting Or if I have to Going back to regular/traditional composting.

…I waited a few days to see if people wanted to pickup at the were green bananas (I had a ton home already) & eat them, I know we have poor migrants workers (which is best use of them). I was thinking would be good even if rotting for my Vermicomposting C-O-W, so I picked them up & filled-up my trays. Now, I can put the star fruit that have fallen to the ground (that I usually use in The C-O-W) into our non-Vermicomposting compost tumbler. lucky me; but one could argue, I should have asked the nursery poor migrants workers (everyone at the nursery are on friendly terms, with me & the dogs), if they were going take & eat them, while they were green.

For the next growing season I want to 1) stop relying exclusively on store bought soil and 2) stop wasting all my food scraps. I’ve started looking into vermiculture (and in particular a multi-tray DIY-solution), and I am currently looking for some good resources (books, in-depth article or video series or online courses) that can help me learn, and I was hoping that people here would like to share some resources they have found to help them on their journey to become composting masters.

what's up, everyone? i'm Andy, a new moderator of c/composting. i figure i can at least post a heaptalk thread for us to talk about our composting efforts. where are you, geographically, and what challenges do you face? what kind of composting setup do you have?

Hi all:

Here is a video of the slide deck with the presentation audio if you would like to both see and hear the presentation I gave. Canonical youtube link is here

Hi everyone!

My city collects waste food for composting. There is /no seeds/ rule, likely because whoever uses the compost wants to control what they grow.

I've been working on composting using another method besides trench composting for about two months now. I've enjoyed it so far, and been honestly trying to compost anything that is possible to compost. One thing I noticed though, as a moved from my brief time using a bucket (there were some holes), to a pile, is that I didn't see worms anymore. So I come to you composting experts to ask how can I bring more worms to my shady compost pile on clay soil.

Hey there everybody

Earlier today I posted to the farming community to ask about a photobash of a village I'm working on. One of the suggestions I'd received in my last search for inputs was a centralized composting solution, which I think makes sense for a solarpunk community. Everybody contributes organic waste and everyone benefits.

I know I can send soil samples to my local university extension office for testing, but how do I test soil for glyphosate-based herbicides, lead, arsenic, and other contaminates?

Keep a couple pieces of charcoal in your kitchen bin for smell absorption. I just took some charred bits out of my firepit. When they're used up they can just go right in the pile.

My understanding is a lot of "greens" eventually become "brown". Green leaves when they dry up would switch to a "brown". Same with dead grass.

I am curious. Are some of you doing bokashi ? What composting / fermenting method are you using ?

Two years ago I started composting the cut grass from the lawnmower and occasionally some thin twigs and leaves. "Composting" as in dining it all in a cheap plastic compost container without any bottom.

If at all. I know some folks just let it sit and go low and slow.

For years I’ve been taking a pee jug along when I go camping. I buy a 2-gallon jug of kitty litter and keep the nice wide-mouth jug it comes in. They’re firm plastic and have a nice handle. I keep one right outside my tent for midnight pees. Way easier than hoofing all the way to the bathrooms or whatever.

I know it was a thing on reddit, but how does everyone feel about peeing on your compost? Apparently it really helps, but I've never brought myself to do it.

i live in alaska and i've started doing some very slapdash lazy composting. i bought a wire pet pen off amazon for $35ish that comes in 8 panels, and then i split that into two 4 panel segments, and then i staked & zip tied them behind my shed to form two wire boxes and i've been tossing yard & kitchen veg waste in there willy nilly. the advice i got was it's tough to compost here properly because of the 6 months of winter, so just put everything in a pile and cover the top when the snow comes, and then next year when it thaws, dig it out and use it.

Hello, I am exploring Lemmy due to Reddit's changes, and I wanted to become more involved with Solarpunk. I volunteered to help moderate this community which will hopefully make me lurk less and contribute more. Hope everyone is doing well!