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Home Composting Bins

More and more people who enjoy gardening and are also concerned about the environment are setting up home composting bins. Compost makers will help you have a healthier garden and also reduce the amount of waste you throw away by recycling household fruit and vegetable scraps.

As food prices rise and landfills fill up, it’s hard not to be aware of the amount of stuff we all throw away. It’s particularly troubling to toss out food, even when it is just the scraps and parings. Thrifty home cooks may keep a stockpot so that they can use their old vegetables for soup and sauce bases, but some are taking the reuse concept one step further by setting up home composting bins for the vegetable scraps.

The basic process involves putting discarded vegetable, fruit, and paper waste into home composing bins, then letting microbial action take over to make the organic material decompose and become fertile garden soil that is rich in nutrients. If you live where there is clay, sandy, or other problem soil, you can use the composted soil to improve the quality of these poor soils.

You can build your own compost maker or you can buy one. They are available in a range of sizes, styles, and colors to suit any household or setting, whether city, suburban, or rural.

Keep a container, such as a crock or a bucket, on the kitchen counter or under the sink so that as you go about preparing meals day to day you can toss your scraps in there and then at the end of the day carry them out to the compost bin. In addition to vegetable parings and such, other good things to add are grass clippings, apple cores, banana peels, coffee grounds, tea leaves, egg shells, paper towels, shredded newspapers, and straw.

Things you should not add to home composting bins are glass, plastic, foil, or meat scraps.

It’s important to keep compost makers moist so that it doesn’t dry out, but make sure it doesn’t get or stay wet or else you may get fungus, rot, and odor. Place it in a sunny spot so that the warmth can promote microbial action. Good home composting bins should hold a good bit of heat. Be sure to turn the compost regularly.

If you are concerned about the amount of waste we all produce and would like to take positive steps to do something about it, while also improving your home garden, consider giving composting a try. Once a household takes up composting, it soon becomes a regular part of the family’s routine, and everyone can enjoy the benefits, whether vegetables, herbs, or flowers, that come from the improved garden soil.

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