Comments on: How do you make an inside compost bin using kitchen scraps and shredded newspaper?

By: juncogirl3

juncogirl3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:27:59 +0000

Okay..here is what I do. I have an indoor worm farm. I bought an 18 gallon container from Wal-Mart. This is filled with shredded newspaper and then put in an order of red wigglers. Not earthworms. Earthworms are not container worms. I drilled holes all around the area just under the lid to the container for air holes. It took me about a year to have a full producing, eat your garbage farm but I started with very few worms. The worms thrive on the shredded paper and eat all your kitchen waste except meat, fat and most dairy. In the spring I clean out the bin and use all the worm castings and doo doo for organic fertilizer around my plants and in my garden. The bin just looks like a storage container so no one even knows that I have a worm farm. I am not sure how cold your storage area gets but the worms can tolerate 50 degrees but not much colder. This farm I have does not have to be hidden because it just looks like a container. There is no stink and your kitchen waste and newspaper becomes some of the best fertilizer you can use.
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Master Gardener and worm farmer on a small scale.

By: DR. DIRT

DR. DIRT — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:06:59 +0000

if you are talking bout using a 5 galon bucket, that s a good container to use, you can roll the bucket on the concrete floor to mix things up, make sure the top is on secure, to control the smell add 1\2 cup of lime as needed, garden centers sell a product to speed the process up, also controls the smell , when using newspaper make sure the ink used in printing is not made from a petroleum product, you can contact the news paper and they should be able to tell you, before i started using news paper i did this, my paper uses soy bean oil for news print , except on glossy pages, the smaller the pieces you put in the bucket the faster they will compose,– i made a shreader from a used sink and a garbage disposal,sitting on a wooden frame , with an extra bucket under it, in my workshop , you can install cord with a plug, just make sure it does not come in connect with the water ,– insert left over s you want to compost and pour a little water in it while it is running,–do not add animal products, meat and such, chicken bones are fine to add after they have dried out a bit,bone meal is made from bones— add small amount of cotton seed for nitrogen,– using this method , you could let it partly compose and put it in a larger compost pile out side bout once a month, then start over agin , for more information you might want to go to WAKIPEDIA free dictionary , and log on to making compost on a small scale, hope this helps
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gardener and composter for 45 years,

By: emmann3354

emmann3354 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:37:59 +0000

Throw it in a bucket and let it rot.
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By: rmonarch

rmonarch — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:14:59 +0000

Check out this website: http://journeytoforever.org/compost_indoor.html

They make it an easy "how-to" complete with what to use for a container and what to use for composting.

*~ Good luck ~*
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http://journeytoforever.org/compost_indoor.html

By: lisa .

lisa . — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:39:59 +0000

I wouldsnt recomend this the stench and all the creepy crawlies it would attract would not be nice
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