Composting the home made way

Oh I make my own, because not only is it free, but it cuts down on my trash by composting veg and fruit products..Mine is doing well since I changed the way I compost too. Before it was in this cylinder where I had to take it apart and stir and then put it back together again. That is like taking a air mattress out of a package and expect to fold it up just as small to fit.. So last year I just opened it up and instead of a round composter, it has three walls and the open end is where I lay the lid. All I have to do is pick up the lid, stir and replace..

This year I didn't use any compost. We'll see how things grow without it. But I also started making my own compost for future use. It's far from being useable. How long does it usually take to make compost?

I have made and used compost in the past. All of the kitchen veggie waste goes in one or another bin. I love what it does for the soil, but I do not turn it and all to make it work faster. The garden plot we revive has had tons of grass clippings dumped on it and we will work that in. Our recycling/solid waste utility gives away mulch made from yard waste and when it is pretty decayed it is a lot like compost. It makes a good soil amendment.

No compost here, but no garden yet either. The kids and I did plant some Marigolds today though. When I lived in the country I had a compost pile that I threw everything in, but I have not done anything like that here in the city.

hi Grandpa Bob when we had our own house, we used both homemade compost and store bought too.I remember we got some compost one time, I cannot remember the name now, but it made the soil so good, and loose, just right for acid loving plants like azaleas and camellias and all my fuschias too.I really had a lovely garden and it broke my heart when we sold the place to a developer who of course,bulldozed all the gardens and trees just to build shoddy little houses on our large lot. ugh But we did have a lot of fun during the y ears we lived there and gardening was always formost in our minds, mild ca climate we could grow so many things and we did. too.

Hi BOB , I make compost at home, in fact I never buy any from outside sources at all.I use up all the degradable food items, kitchen waste,dry leaves etc to make compost.I too have a compost pit into which I add all the kitchen waste at the end of the day and cover it with a layer of soil and dry leaves and with regular watering it turns into the best compost ever.The only problem is that during heavy rains and monsoon months from June to September, I am unable to do this...

Congratulations, Grandpa Bob. Gardening is so great and a compost makes everything grow so much better. At the moment I have only a balcony, but I can have flowers there - too much traffic so the veggies would not be so healthy.. I have been saving tea leaves all winter, and if I put them in the flower pots together with soil, they make a mini compost - and it actually works.. The flowers will thank me..!!

I just "harvested" my first batch of compost from an experiment in composting in a small space. What I used was a plastic bin with wheels and a tall handle, and I just set it on its side so that the handle touched the ground and then set it upright again to turn the compost a couple times a week. That usually distributes the green and brown stuff without my having to stir much, although I do have to stir when I add new waste. The main ingredients of my compost are strips of old newspapers, citrus rinds and other vegetable kitchen scraps, spent flower heads, and hard sandy topsoil that I dig up in order to make holes for pot-in-pot planters. My ground is covered with crushed rock and almost all my plants live in containers except for a few trees and shrubs.

Hi granpa bob! I´m hoping to be able to make my compost by making a hole in the ground. In my country it´s Autumn and I´m raking leaves. What else can I add? I don´t want to buy anything as I´m on a tight budget, more so this year because I underwent surgery. In my country in doesn´t snow but it rains a lot. Would it be ok to bury th leaves and other organic material in that case? Please help.