Do you have a compost heap, worm farm or both?
Question by prcoley: Do you have a compost heap, worm farm or both?
It makes such a difference to the garden – I can’t believe people would put their kitchen and green waste in the garbage (obviously unless you live in an apartment)
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14 Responses to Do you have a compost heap, worm farm or both?
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We have a compost bin. Our local council sells them cheap to encourage people 🙂
ftmshk
November 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm
No. I did at my old house though.
songbird1331
November 11, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Back home in Colorado, we had a compost heap. We grew great fruits every year because of the compost we used from that heap, I swear.
But now, I live in an apartment, in the city. I hate using styrofoam, and always feel guilty throwing out things that could be composted instead.
Jimmy
November 11, 2011 at 1:00 pm
I hav 3 big plies I turn all the time, best garden around too
blind_wood_carver
November 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I sometimes just put my orange peels and other peels in my mum’s plants that are all over the house. lol It does help the plant though a lot
Jasmine
November 11, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Your right, composting is one of the best ways of recycling!! My husband calls my compost pile the compost dump! It’s hard to believe how much stuff goes into it.
Plants absolutely love the stuff. Keep it up, it’s great for the environment.
Geri H
November 11, 2011 at 2:49 pm
i use to live on prince edward island and they had a massve provincial comsoting thing like garbage collection they took every thing that was organic and turned in to compose for farms and you could also buy it bake super cheap for your own garden with the guarantee that it would be good quality.
ah64dtk
November 11, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Neither, but the neighbor’s dog left a heap of shit in the yard the other day.
raininmyshoe
November 11, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I have poor sandy soil, so I’m a firm believer in composting to build it up! I have several piles going in different stages of completion, and use the black gold to work into my soil as soon as it becomes available! I haven’t had much luck with worm farming because it is so danged hot here in South Carolina that they don’t seem to be able to survive unless they go down deep.
floyd lover
November 11, 2011 at 4:22 pm
No – I don’t have either.
I rent a house and the garden we have is basically just a hedge at the front of our house which even in the midst of a drought looks like it will never die. Also we plan on moving in to an apartment soon and I will be damned if I will go and spend money on something for my landlord to keep.
But if I lived in a house long term and had a garden I would 🙂
kimberhill
November 11, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Yes I have both however I also have an extra that I call my ‘Garden Soup’. Garden Soup consists of a large bucket with a lid filled to the brim with ALL your green waste, bulbs – yes onion weed bulbs and oxalis all go into the bin. Fill with water and let it sit for about a week or so, your nose will tell you when this is ready. Smells just like fresh horse manure. You may need to water this down a bit, me – I just water it on straight. My household only puts our garbage bins out once per month. You should see my garden, and I live in Qld. We are on Level 3 water restrictions- bucketing only.
Oh…some people don’t know that you do not put dairy and or meat products in your compost.
Mac Attack
November 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm
I am composting my leaves, apples from my trees, grass and other junk….this is the first time i have every had a compost pile….IT STINKS….there are flies and little crickets everywhere, and worms and who knows what else
I got sick of putting all my clippings into a lawn and leaf bags, so i am going to try this for a while…i hope it works, because im not happy with it so far
padrote chingon
November 11, 2011 at 6:08 pm
I have simplified my composting by raising chickens, ducks, and geese. In order to protect the poultry from predators, I have them in large pens with a wire “roof” overhead, except for when I let them out – under supervision – to weed the garden. Almost all my kitchen waste, including meat leftovers which couldn’t go into a compost pile – are fed to the poultry. They “recycle” it into eggs and manure. Since I keep the pens and coops with straw bedding, the manure and straw mixes together into a really nice mixture of nitrogen and carbon. Every fall I dig out the straw/ manure mix and haul it out to fallow areas of the garden, and by spring, it has decomposed to make a very fertile planting bed. Lots of resident worms appreciate it, too.
sonomanona
November 11, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Compost bins. I would not be without them, all my garden ‘waste’ ( note the inverted commas! ) goes in, including shredded hedge trimmings, branches etc.
Roy
November 11, 2011 at 7:45 pm