Kitchen Compost Bin – The Three Top Ways To Remove Fruit Flies Within Your Home

More and more people are focused on the natural environment. Probably the easiest things we can do to be more green is to compost food waste, provided you have access to a backyard. Composting helps to lessen your contribution to the waste stream, and as an additional side benefit, you wind up with a highly nutritious land amendment, compost. But gathering your kitchen scraps can result in an unwanted side effect: breeding fruit flies. There are a few easy steps anyone can do to prevent those flies from breeding on your kitchen scraps.

The next 3 tips should help you keep your fruit fly difficulty under control. If you are still having problems, you might want to acquire a cheap fruit fly trap.

Use a compost container along with a lid. There are loads of different types of things you can employ to gather your vegetable peels plus fruit skins. Many people make use of an old bowl. But fruit flies breed on the skins and peels of vegetables and fruits. While fruit flies may still breed in the container, they will not be in the air around your kitchen.

Empty your kitchen compost pail regularly. When fruit flies breed on the skins and peels of your fruits and vegetables, it is important to get rid of the decaying waste from your house in a timely manner. This means getting in the habit of taking your compost outside frequently. Try never to let it go more than 3 days.

Keep scraps in the fridge. If you are not going to take your compost out regularly, you may want to think about keeping your compost scraps in the fridge. The cold will slow down the development of the fruit flies. Just make certain to mark the scraps!

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Posted on April 8th, 2010 by Graham Allmanson and filed under Compost | No Comments »

Gardening Rhythms: Josiah Cain/Composting using a Black Soldier Fly

Compost yard and kitchen scraps using the Black Soldier Fly. The fly never appears. It’s first eaten before it flies.

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Posted on February 18th, 2010 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | No Comments »

Simple Composting

I take a simple approach to composting my kitchen scraps. I basically just put em in a trash can and let everything just breakdown. I live in a hot climate for most of the year, so it doesn’t take long for the composting to happen. It’s good stuff!

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Posted on January 31st, 2010 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 2 Comments »

Indoor Kitchen Composter Review

Shawna Coronado reviews and discusses the benefits of an Indoor Kitchen Composter from Clean Air Gardening (www.cleanairgardening.com).

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Posted on November 15th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 1 Comment »

White Ceramic Compost Pail

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This white ceramic compost pail holds one gallon of material and features a charcoal filter that helps eliminate any smell. Like most compost pails, it serves the function of dropping off your kitchen scraps and then taking them to your compost pile or compost bin every few days or so. If you’re a little klutzy, you might want to consider a stainless steel or bamboo compost pail instead. Overall though, this is an excellent compost pail for your kitchen, and a wonderful addition to home composting.

For more information on this compost pail, please click the link at the top of this video description. Thank you.

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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | No Comments »

How to Keep Your Home Clean : Home Kitchen Cleaning Tips

Cleaning the kitchen is one of the toughest jobs of the housekeeper, learn how about house cleaning in this free video.

Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”

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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 19 Comments »

Vegetable Garden | Potager Montage NatGreeneVeg Spring 2009

European potager themed vegetable garden. Organically grown heirloom vegetables, fruit, flowers, and herbs on a 2300 sq ft plot. No synthetic fertilizers used, this is 9 years of compost added annually. Includes raised bed Square Foot Garden, wildlife habitat, vertical structures, grafted tomatoes, low tunnel cloche, & companion planting for a four season harvest. Produce donated to Ozarks Food Harvest. Part of the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden in Nathanael Greene Park, Springfield, Mo.
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Posted on November 6th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 14 Comments »

CarriageWorks Kitchen Garden Workshop #1 – Composting

CarriageWorks Kitchen Garden Workshop #1 – Composting

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Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 2 Comments »

Container Gardening: Container Herb Garden

Container gardening is a great way to grow plants, vegetables and herbs without needing a lot of space. Herbs do especially well and can be grown right outside your kitchen door. In this video, you’ll learn how to use an old farmer’s market basket to make a great container garden. Fill it with your favorite herbs and your cooking will be full of flavor all summer long.

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Posted on August 15th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 25 Comments »

Kitchen Compost 101

Gavan Murphy, The Healthy Irishman, shows us how to set up your very own kitchen compost kit. He breaks down how to get started and use all those extra food scraps and turn them into fertilizer for your garden.

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Posted on August 6th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | 2 Comments »
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