The 92 things we composted in 2010
Gardening season may be winding down, but Canada Goose Jackets composting season never ends. As a kitchen canada goose outlet uk sale gardener, I come to enjoy composting almost as much as I enjoy gardening. Making compost is a completely satisfying activity. Kitchen scraps and garden waste are magically transformed into compost that feeds our plants. The trips cheap canada goose uk canada goose black friday sale to the compost bin even through snow up to nutrient rich compost.
When I was doing web research on composting resources a couple of years ago, I came across this great list: 163 Things You Can Compost. Marion Owen list includes some things have I haven composted (so far), and it also inspired me to make an exhaustive list of the things we have composted in our home composter. Here our updated list of things we compost in 2010:
Freezer burned vegetables, freezer burned fruit, wood chips, hay, popcorn (unpopped, Maids too), freezer burned fish, old spices, pine needles, leaves, matches (paper or wood), hops, old, dried up and faded herbs, spent grains from brewing beer, spent yeast from brewing beer, grass clippings, potato peelings, weeds, hair clippings from home barbering, stale bread, coffee grounds, wood ashes, canada goose outlet nyc Canada Goose Online sawdust, tea bags and grounds, egg shells, grapefruit rinds, pea vines, houseplant trimmings, old pasta, grape wastes, garden goose outlet canada soil, powdered/ground phosphate rock, corncobs (take a long time to decompose),blood meal,beet wastes, tree bark, flower petals, pumpkin seeds, expired flower arrangements, bone meal, citrus wastes, stale potato chips, rhubarb stems, wheat bran, nut shells, clover, straw, cover crops, fish scraps, tea bags (black and herbal), apple cores, electric razor trimmings, kitchen wastes, shrimp shells, crab canada goose coats shells, lobster shells, pie crust, onion skins, watermelon rinds, date pits, olive pits, peanut shells, burned oatmeal, bread crusts, canada goose outlet in usa cooked rice, tofu, banana peels, wooden toothpicks, stale breakfast cereal, pickles, pencil shavings, fruit salad, tossed salad, soggy Cheerios, burned toast, old or canada goose outlet reviews outdated seeds, liquid from canned vegetables, liquid from canned fruit, old beer, snow, fish bones, spoiled canned fruits and vegetables, produce trimmings from grocery store.
and here canada goose outlet online uk are some other items we compost that are not on that list:
SunChips bags
old ruined straw hat
ash from hardwood charcoal (NOT from charcoal briquets!)
leftover oatmeal
sad old rice
the lost items from the bottom of the fruit and vegetable drawers
flour that gotten too old
jack o (and other pumpkin shells)
spent sunflower heads (after Jim has saved the seeds for next year)
avocado peel (we had less luck with the seeds too hard)
Marion Owen list also included several categories of things we don compost, the most prominent being paper products including napkins, Post Canada Goose Parka it notes, and theater tickets. We have always lived in places where curbside recycling collects https://www.rkliedtke.de paper; we put our paper there, rather than composting it ourselves. The exception to that is newspapers, which we used successfully several times to take down official canada goose outlet weed patches. To do that, we Canada Goose Outlet spread newspaper layers over the area, like behind a garage say, and then put a layer of yard waste like leaves and trimmings to hold the newspapers down. Over the course of a season or a winter, the weeds underneath are thoroughly smothered.
We have no pets, so we don compost pet hair or feathers. We don have a supply of manure either so again we don put that in our compost.
Marion Owen list also includes leather items, such as old gardening gloves and worn out wallets. I haven tried composting leather yet, but there is an old worn out leather wallet on my list of next summer science experiments.
What goes in your compost bin?
Janice and Jim Leach garden a backyard plot in downtown Ann Arbor and tend the website 20 Minute Garden. If possible, I buy unbleached ones because those have got to be better for the compost and the environment. The possibility of putting problems back into the garden is definitely not worth the risk. We put hardwood charcoal ash into our compost without worries. Charcoal briquettes, on the other hand, are not a good compost addition. Briquettes contain wood scraps and sawdust along with various binders too much unknown chemical possibilities to be good for the garden. We have covered compost bins so they canada goose outlet do not tend to dry out much. I rarely add Canada Goose sale water. If I need to, however, I rinse out the kitchen compost bucket with water from our rain barrels and add that to the compost. (Our bins are covered.) Usually bread or pasta leftovers get used up in our house in casseroles or soups. If you decide to experiment with composting tissue, let us know how it goes!
I compost lots of things, but don get spastic about it, since the leaves, and the remains from my gardens, far outweigh the little things. I get about 10 cubic yards/year. I probably spend 40 hours/year working on it though, much of that heavy pitch fork and shovel work chopping and turning it. Doing it that big may not be for everyone. It is canada goose outlet almost the entire basis of my agriculture though. I start by piling this years leaves, which won actually be used until spring 2012, so it also requires huge space, and most of the gets hot composting cheap canada goose only happens in July Sep. You could ease canada goose outlet canada the work by having uk canada goose outlet the leaves shredded up better, but it costs noise and fossil fuel. I doing charcoal experiments. It doesn really compost, but if I throw it on the pile, it finds its way to my dirt eventually. I have about one giant branch/debris fire per year, which I fiddle with so as to maximize the yield. I learned from a Japanese guy dealing with clay soils. See about «terra pretta» if you haven heard. The most key composting ingredient may be water, and how much to use and when. I have a well and collect rain water. Would city water be less effective? May the spirits of rot be with you.
I compost all compostable stuff, except meat. I put most of the house compost in a plastic bin mostly so the dogs won eat it. I have found that I need to empty this bin more than once a year however, canada goose outlet online as it must not get enough air and «brown» stuff to compost well and can become very stinky by summer. Other compost goes in piles. I don compost any of the leaves and trimmings from any plants (or the apple trees) that show evidence of disease or insect problems, for example, my tomatoes had Septoria leaf spot. I know my more relaxed composting methods will not get the pile hot enough to kill the fungus.
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