How Do You Compost Kitchen Scraps And Yard Waste?
Garden composting is a great way to limit the amount of garbage you throw away in the landfill as well as provide fertile soil to use in gardening and landscape projects. When most people think of composting, they think of smelly garbage sitting in their back yard. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. When the proper rules for kitchen composting and garden composting are followed, it can be a pleasant and rewarding project. Choose a garden composting container or select an area of the yard where you will dump composting materials. Pick a shady part of the yard that has good drainage. Begin placing table scraps and yard trimmings into the garden composting pile. Think of the garden compost waste in two forms: brown and green. You should place three parts of brown material into the gardening compost pile for every one part of green material. This ratio keeps the smell down. Brown material includes leaves, mulch, twigs, and pine straw. Green material includes grass clippings and e