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The cold compost method will produce compost in one to two years. Hot composting takes only three to six months. Photo by Tiffany Woods.
Home made compost tumbler.
I made it from things I had at home. The barrel was free from a dairy and I had the hardware for about 20 years. I save everything thats of value, and my value system is probably different than most.
So my wife say's
So what do we do with the green-waste we’ve just shredded and screened? Pile it up nice and high!!! I took this picture a while back of the massive compost mountain which I used to see on each visit to Kimbriki tip. I don’t know if this is the local northern beaches stockpile awaiting use or if this is the storage solution until they get into processing the material. Maybe this is their idea of windrow composting? Just one massive pile containing a few hundred tonnes of green-waste haha I imagine they’d achieve this mountain as a result of the processing equipment ejecting and shooting the material up to the top, just like a mulcher does, but with more force in this case. With the steep angle, it looks like an excavator or loader would’ve flipped and rolled back onto itself until it hit the bottom. Haven’t been to Kimbriki in a while, but I’m sure this is still an icon for the green-waste drop-off area.
Great Dixters compost heap is the biggest I've seen, although I believe Kew Gardens claim to have the biggest! This one however was complete with growing marrows. I would love to size the size of the marrows when they are ready!
From the compost bin with large earthworms, pulled out some of the non-native 'assistants' to the worms. The snails eat a lot and help keep the balance for the worms. All local material the awl snail has made a home.
Quebecers will have to get used to the presence of a third recycle bin which will be designed to collect organic materials such as grass and leaves, but leftovers.
We have been successfully composting kitchen wastes for two years now and are very happy that we don't have a lot of garbage to throw out to the daily waste collector!
The pots are from Daily Dump, Bangalore. If you do have a bit of yard space, do consider trying this. It really is not difficult or time consuming at all.
We segregate 'Dry Waste' (plastics, paper, glass etc for recycling) and 'Wet Waste' (Vegetable peels, food, waste from cleaning the floors etc). The Dry waste needs to be given only once a week. and the wet waste comes to hardly a mug full, that I really don't need a plastic cover to dump that. I just line my waste bin with a newspaper, just so that it doesn't get messy.
Update December 2010:
Still composting at home and now cannot think of any other way! :)
I've been saving vegetable and fruit scraps all week to bring to my friends' house to put in their compost pile. I'm not always so good about that, but somehow having to pinch my pennies makes me much more cognizant of getting the most out of the food.
Yard compost angles around the shed. There are three sections and each year each section gets rotated to a new section or used in the garden.
The Flickr Lounge-Container(s)
I put all the recyclable kitchen food items in this and it gets dumped into our large compost pile in the backyard by the Hoop House.
I find compost very pretty: the colours, the stratification, the juxtaposition of food stuffs. It's like a dietary diary (except the grass, that's from the rabbits).
Glorious earthworms! There were literally hundreds of these wriggly dudes in the compost bin. Great for the soil. :)