Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Composting: What does or doesn't work for you!, 1 by sallyg

sallyg wrote:
Great idea for a thread.
Rule # 1 is, home compost never finshes up nicely or quicky like they say it can.
My countertop collection is a produce or bread(buns, they're wider) bag for the usual suspects of kitchen waste. That can be folded over to reduce the commments from people who don't think of a couple fruit flies as pets in the house. That usually goes out to one of the sheet-into a tube- type composters that counties might give out. Dump bag, put in trash on the way back in. Nice because when empty you can roll it and stash. But only mildly effective when you have a lot of fall leaves.In a thin plastic you usually have a layer of dry leaves on sides and top eight inches, reducing the active part to about two foot diameter and a foot less depth than whatever you fill it to. Unless you cover it after getting well moistened. But check for cats first.

One year I hooked two together (bigger diameter) to collect a lot of leaves. Impossible to turn.