Now I can see those who live in the city having to kitchen compost and spend money on these things (though it's cheaper to make your own...just not as pretty I guess) but for the most part, anything you bury in the ground will compost. We have quite a bit of land and my grass and leaves all go into one pile. My kitchen scraps go into another and I cover it with the leaves and grass as well as dirt. I don't measure anything or add certain parts of this to that. I just dump it and then cover it. I always get a rich black soil. I use a cheap five gallon bucket I got from LOWES.
And yes, I add the milk in cereal bowls, I add any kind of left over food we have. I dump it and cover it....winter months I cover it with soil. About April I move over and start a new pile next to the winter one. At the end of the summer I take the old soil from my buckets and containers and that goes into the pile as well. I have been doing this before ever reading anything about it...
It really isn't rocket science.
I totally agree with you Mrs Bentley,
ReplyDeleteIts not rocket science.
My father used to throw peelings and so on in the garden corner and cover it with an old carpet, and it would compost right down. It ain't rocket science :D