Need your advice.
By hardluck
@hardluck (375)
United States
September 10, 2008 2:33pm CST
I want to start making my on compost. I've been bruning all my yard debry, but I been thing I could use it instead of wasting it. What is better, a pile or a bin. Do you put table scraps in your compost, how about dog poo? How much water do you put on it? How long does it take for it to become compost? If you make it for a year, do you start a new pile the next year and use what has been composting for a year? How ofen do you need to trun it? Any advice will be helpful, and I thank you for it.
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@odwitt (112)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Do it in a metal bin or garbage can with a lid. I started a compost bin last year, after trying to just do it in a pile. It drew every racoon in town to my yard! One night we were having a bbq in the back yard, and once it got dark, all the kids started screaming b/c they saw glowing eyes all over the yard. You got it- racoons! Use metal bins and not plastic so they can't chew through it. Trust me- they will get in there any way they can! Also, pile a few bricks in the bottom of the can or bin, so they can't knock it over.
@hardluck (375)
• United States
10 Sep 08
What do you do about rust, don't your cans rust out in a year or so? As for the raccoons, trapping season is coming and a raccoon hide will bring 35 to 40 dollars, so sounds like a plus to me, I'm from the south so I'll grill up a raccoon in a heart beat. LOL
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@snowy22315 (181942)
• United States
11 Sep 08
We have a composter in our yard. It's made of black plastic. The only thing we have in it right now is grass clippings. I dont want to put anything organic in it and have a raccoon and the dog fighting over it. That's just me. I think you should put anything in it you think will work.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Sep 08
hi hardluck use a metal bin or large garbage can and turn your stuff every so often, incorporating kitchen leavings and garden debris . you will soon have some nice rich compost, use your yearly and start a new batch. work it well into your garden soil and you will have a great growing bed for veggies and anything else you may want.
@kisanchhantyal (420)
• Nepal
11 Sep 08
you may dig the soil and put those stuff inside that. It makes no smell.
@tulipstrader (1467)
• India
11 Sep 08
while making the compost why not add a few earth worms to it. it is said they are good agents in turning it into good stuff. i have seen farmers practicing this at my village. they all waste stuff into a big pit including cow dung, dry leaves, waste food etc. since those places had abundant earth worms, they creeped into it. otherwise you can get a few of them say about 30-40 nos and add a few each day as you find them to it. one thing to be noted here is that you should not add any kind of chemicals fertilizer inouts into this as it kills the earth worms and prevent them from working productively.
