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Learn to Compost at Home!

Posted on July 31, 2008
by Selah M.

Composting at Home

I live in San Mateo County, CA, and my area is subsidizing home composting. They offer a free course on how to do it, and I got a really nice Smith and Hawkin home composting bin for a fraction of the cost. It's really easy, and I use mostly grass clippings and leaves and weeds from the yard and wet it down from time to time. The way the bin was made in sections makes it really easy to flip the compost pile. Check your local area for composting incentives because ours wasn't highly advertised and I just came across it accidentally! With the amount of space for home waste dwindling, it seems that a lot of cities should be looking into how to get more people to compost!

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4 star rating April 21, 2007

A good place for banana peels

I like to use the peels from the bananas because of their potassium content. it keeps the peels and other kitchen plant discard from taking up very finite landfil space.

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5 star rating February 5, 2007

Our own Compost for Soil Enrichment

We recycled a few second hand wooden crate pallets to make a small compost area in the back of our yard.
Into this we put our old shredded newspapers, shredded junk snail mail, our lawn clipping, any vegetable skins and old fruits that we may have become to old to consume.
We use a bit of natural lime to encourage earthworms to come to it as they love lime and vegetable matter.
After we turn it over every few months and keep it moist we wind up with some really fantastic all natural green fertilizer for my home grown vegetables.
It's really not hard to do and we get great benefits from it.

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