Ok I know someplace I was reading about compost and the different methods
I have sat here and gone through the compost forum and didn't' find the one I was looking for it talked about using not only paper, grass, leaves but you can use even use the left overs you toss in the trash.
anyone know where to find this kind of compost info?????
am off to keep looking I know I sat here and read it the other nite someplace ...lol
composting
I too am a novice composter, but from what I understand you can use vegetative leftovers. That is anything that isn't meat. I put all my peelings and vegetable leftovers in my compost pile. Just remember that they are greens not browns :)
yeah I have printed out several things from the Smith county extension site but I know I read someplace on line about a way to compost using leftovers too you just had to add beer or molasses or something am trying to find it again
Phyllis....may it was on Dirtdoctor.com
I found this site but I know it was an article that talked of it using like molasses and wheat germ maybe am still looking to find it but here is one link I found
EM-Bokashi Method
http://www.emshop.co.nz/howto-compost.html
Make sure it's raw and not cooked veggies. You can pretty much throw in raw fruits and veggies, stalks, stems (like from tomatoes and grapes), peels, rinds and stuff like that. NO meats! You can also toss your coffee grounds in the compost pile.
Stephanie
for a "normal" compost greens and browns yes I just thought this article was very interesting in how you can do more towards recycling and improving soil by doing something with our food waste.
the article I had read told what to use instead of going with the "name brand" stuff but below is an explanation of what it does and how.
I just wondered if anyone else had read anything on it or tried doing it
Do you compost? Here is a way to increase the amount of materials you can recycle.
Using EM•1® Microbial Inoculant and EM•1® Bokashi you can recycle, or pickle, food waste to make a valuable fertilizer for your gardens or potted plants. This is done by inoculating food waste in an airtight bag or bucket with a dried material known as EM•1® Bokashi. EM•1® Bokashi is fermented organic material made from EM•1® Microbial Inoculant, molasses, water, and an organic (high carbon) material such as rice or wheat bran, sawdust, dried leaves, etc. The EM•1® Bokashi will ferment the food waste, preventing it from rotting, and therefore eliminate odor or the attraction to flies. After the food waste is pickled, you can add it to an existing compost pile, feed it to worms, or bury it in an existing garden bed.
Materials Needed:
• 2 buckets with easy to open lids
• EM•1® Bokashi
• Food waste
Methods:
1. Sprinkle a small amount of EM•1® Bokashi on the bottom.
2. Add food waste (meat and dairy are fine, try to keep out extra moisture like, milk, etc.)
3. Sprinkle EM•1® Bokashi on the food waste enough to cover it.
4. Incorporate the EM•1® Bokashi into the new food waste to coat it with EM•1® Bokashi.
5. After the bucket is full (which generally takes one week for two-three people), let it sit, tightly closed, for at least one week to ferment. (Allowing it to sit longer is fine, just make sure the materials aren’t too wet. This will cause rotting and odor.)
6. After fermenting, bury the contents and cover with at least 8 inches of soil so as not to attract animals.
7. After another two weeks, you can plant directly into the soil.
Alternate Method:
1. Follow steps 1-6 above.
2. Incorporate the materials from the bucket into your compost pile, covering with at least 8 inches of compost materials.
3. Turn the compost pile as you normally would. The materials from the bucket with boost the anaerobic bacteria in your compost and add valuable vitamins, antioxidants, and EM•1® Bokashi.
• Cover with 8 inches of soil and do not plant in for at least two weeks.
Here is an article about composting, we use the cold method and it works great.
Josephine.
http://www.texasstar.org/index.php?pg=composting
Thanks Josephine
Hubby is out side right now starting to gather things to put in the pile we are starting. I printed out several thing on composting for him to read to help him get the idea of what to use
I know it is going to take time to get it going.
I was just wondering if anyone had tried the method above and how it worked.
I haven't tried Bokashi but it seems to me that all it does is keep the contents of your waste bucket from smelling bad, you still have to compost the contents of the bucket.
I think it would be a good method for people who don't have access to a compost pile on a regular basis. It allows them to save and use their kitchen waste without having a bad smell in the house.
But if you access to a regular compost pile I think it is an unnecessary step.
Just my opinion.
I think the difference in the system Phyllis has found is that you can compost ALL the kitchen waste....including meat and dairy. In that case it has to be treated before putting into the compost pile. She is a souse chef in a spa kitchen and is very aware of the amount of foods that are wasted and just thrown away. Looking for a way to make some sense of it all.
Well, if you are going to put meats or animal products in the bucket it makes sense to neutralize it somehow.
Josephine.
Josephine, that's a really interesting way to do compost. Never heard that one before. We have 2 piles. One's supposed to be cooking while the other is being built up. We have never turned ours, but we haven't used it yet either. We are, shall we say, not terribly organized. So when I go out there to add to the pile, I forget which one to add to so they are both constantly being added to. I guess I need to make a sign to remind me. Once in awhile we remember to use some Agrispon on it, but that's rare. Molasses is probably just a good, but it'll all compost regardless. One thing that's supposed to help alot to speed things up it keeping it moist. I have a hard enough time remembering to water the plants, so the compost rarely gets water. Molasses is good for compost because it is a biostimulant.
Our compost gets watered along with our plants and that is enough, we love our system, just recently harvested 750 pounds of beautiful sweet smelling fine compost from the pile we built last year.
Josephine.
Jo, do you have a thread somewhere that you show and/or describe where it is in your yard and how you started it.
I don't have a thread about it, but I will try to describe how we have it arranged, right now i have to go bed, the plant sale is tomorrow and we have to be there early.
Josephine.