How To Start A Compost Bin In Your Backyard
Composting not only reduces trash in landfills but also improves your backyard at home.
How to start a compost bin in your backyard. If you don t want to buy one you can make your own indoor or outdoor compost bin. Select a dry shady spot near a water source for your compost pile or bin. Storing compost in the kitchen.
The easiest way to start composting now. You can most certainly begin by just dumping the egg shells and fruit peels from breakfast but if you want to give your compost pile a keen head start you can create a few intentional layers first. Keeping a container in your kitchen like this white ceramic compost bucket 20 world market is an easy way to accumulate your composting materials.
Start your pile well. Add brown and green materials as they are collected making sure larger pieces are chopped or shredded. Protecting your compost pile if you do decide to start a compost pile in your backyard and you don t have a lid on your compost.
It can be a compost bin. How to start composting. This episode is your starter for how to.
So composting inevitably slows down in backyard bins in the winter but with a few simple practices you can continue to put your food scraps in your bin right through the cold weather and have a jump on great soil for next spring. You have your indoor bin ready your outdoor container prepped now we begin. Collect these materials to start off your compost pile right.
To store kitchen waste until you re ready to transfer it to your composter keep a container with a lid and a handle under the sink. I have a large bin that s 50 gallons or more. Moisten dry materials as they are added.
