glass, metal, plastic, etc.) and animal products, like bones, seafood, meat scraps, dairy products, and grease. (Eggshells are an exception since they break down easily and are a good source of calcium!) Additionally, don’t add dog or cat waste (nor kitty litter) to your compost pile...
Let’s be honest. Composting can seem pretty gross to the uninitiated. Unless you regularly take out your kitchen scraps to your compost pile when you’ve got fresh rinds or peels, you’ve probably dealt with some brown, yucky materials. Of course, when it’s all finished, there are no ...
Kitchen scraps are easy to cut up into small pieces if you’ve already got a cutting board out for food prep. Take a bit of time while you cook to chop up fruit and veggie scraps. They don’t have to be diced into tiny pieces, but a few chops will definitely speed things up in ...
So now, kitchen scraps that you used to throw in the garbage and the lawn clippings that used to go to the landfill will serve a valuable purpose. And there’s no longer any reason to feel guilty about wasting food. With a compost pile to feed, there’s almost no such thing as waste!
After preparing your healthy meals, you can turn your waste food scraps into gold. Kitchen scraps can be turned into the best rich soil you can use to grow more of your delicious produce for those healthy meals. Read for some good tips from an experience
How to Make Compost: About 3 feet of space (in a container or in a pile) water & oxygen 2 parts dry brown materials 1 part green materials Composting Basics What to put in: Green Materials (Nitrogen) Kitchen scraps like unused veggies and fruits ...
Making a compost pile in your backyard at home is really quite simple. Here’s what you need to do to get started: Start by layering 2 parts “browns” (fallen leaves, sawdust, etc.) and 1 part “greens” (grass clippings, veggie scraps, etc.). ...
What NOT to Compost Be careful not to ruin a perfectly good compost by adding incompatible materials! Meat, bones, and fish scraps should be avoided unless you are using a special composter for these materials. Perennial weeds and diseased plants can spread seeds and diseases with the compost,...
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Compost is a compilation of decomposing organic material such as food and plant scraps—think fruit and vegetable rinds and leaves—which is most often used in gardening because of the benefits it provides to the greenery in your yard.