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Composting In The City

Urban Composting. How to Start Composting in the City!

There is a wide range of reasons that drive city dwellers to start composting. One reason could be creating a clean and healthy environment for the children to enrich their soil. 

Compost Tumbler Near Garage

What Size Compost Tumbler Do I Need? What Is the Right One?

What you want to do with your composter will determine the right side of the tumbling composter. For instance, will you be composting food waste from your kitchen? Or do you have a big garden full of grass, shrub trimmings, and farm waste?

Worm Bin

Compost Tumbler vs Worm Bin: Which Is Best?

These two modern composters have numerous advantages that sometimes overlap. Choosing one over the other, therefore, becomes a great challenge. However, due to their functionality, a difference in their operating system exists.

Composting Ratio

Composting Ratio: What’s the Right Number?

Typically the ideal C/N ratio for a swift composting process ranges from 25:1 to 30:1. To aid you in getting these proportions right, we’ll tell you which ingredients to put together.

Soggy Compost Pile

Is Your Compost Too Wet? How to Fix a Soggy Compost Pile!

One popular problem you might experience is excess moisture. If your compost pile is too wet, you risk foul odors, encouraging the production of substances harmful to your plants and also flies.

Compost Tumbler Sun or Shade

Where to Place Compost Tumbler [Sun or Shade]

Placing a compost tumbler under the sun is a good idea. The sun’s heat will help make sure the decomposing process is faster compared to when it is under a shade. Similarly, placing the composter under the sun may make new content to dry faster, which will affect the decomposition.

Compost Tumbler Odor

How to Reduce Compost Tumbler Odor

If you’re having any issues with your compost tumbler, especially a smelly pile, then you need to apply some of the techniques we’ve discussed in this article.

Compost Tea

How to Make Compost Tea in Just 15 Easy Steps!

Compost tea is a liquid fertilizer that you make by filtering a finished compost that you made or bought. Why a compost tea and not the compost itself? Let’s find out!

Red Worms In Compost

Can You Have Too Many Worms in Your Compost?

There is no specific number of worms that are considered too many in compost. When worms multiply to a specific density according to your…

Hands Holding Worm

What Can You Put in a Worm Compost Bin?

Gather organic material from your home, including leaves, grass clippings, vegetable waste, and food scraps. Add them to your composting.

Compost in Hands

How Does a Worm Compost Bin Work?

Worm composting is an excellent way of turning waste into useful nutrients. You need to understand how a worm compost works.

Fruit Flies On Watermelon

How to Keep Fruit Flies Out of Your Kitchen

So how do you get rid of fruit flies in your kitchen? You can trap them using an apple cider vinegar trap. Easy DIY fruit fly traps inside.

Earthworms On Soil

Are Compost Worms the Same as Earthworms?

Compost worms and earthworms are not the same. For instance, the earthworm has a larger body than the red wiggler. Red worm is a surface worm.

Kitchen Compost Bin Odor

How to Stop Your Kitchen Compost Bin From Smelling

Kitchen compost is efficient in improving the quality and productivity of your soil. However, at times you will get unpleasant smells.

Worm Composting

How to Speed Up Worm Composting

Speeding up worm composting involves picking suitable worms and setting up an ideal living environment for them. Maintain optimal temperature.

Bokashi Bucket

How to Make a Bokashi Bucket

To make a bokashi bucket, first drill twenty to thirty holes on the bottom of one bucket. Second, insert the drilled bucket in another.

DIY Worm Compost Bin

How to Make a Worm Compost Bin [DIY]

Do you have to buy a worm bin? How about saving some money by making your DIY worm farm bin? If you decide to go the DIY way…

Compost Heap

Aerating Compost Without Turning It

Turning the compost pile is the most popular method of aerating it. However, there are still other methods that you can employ and keep…

Gardener Turning Compost

Do Compost Aerators Work?

Does a compost aerator work? Yes, it does. You only need to ensure that you have the right tool for the job that is also comfortable to use.

Emptying A Composting Toilet

How to Empty a Composting Toilet?

Emptying a composting toilet is a straightforward process. Begin by opening the top of the compost toilet, remove the seat panel and take…

DIY Compost Aerator

How to Make a Compost Aerator [Diy Project]

To make a compost aerator using a pipe, start by measuring the height of the bin and ensure you measure below the lid as the pipe will be…

Rolls Of Toilet Paper

Can You Put Toilet Paper in a Composting Toilet?

Yes. It is okay to put toilet paper in a composting toilet. The toilet paper is compostable though some types of toilet paper take longer…

Reduce Food Waste

15 Ways How to Reduce Food Waste at Home

We have the best tips to help you reduce food waste. We’ll cover proper planning tips, sharing the excesses, and other uses.

Composting Toilet Sign

How Composting Toilets Work?

A composting toilet recycles human waste through the natural decomposition process and evaporation. The waste material that enters…

Composting Toilet Smell

Do Composting Toilets Smell Bad?

For your compost toilet to smell, there must be a problem with maintenance. If the compost pile is too wet, bacteria will thrive…

Aerate Composting

How to Aerate a Compost Bin?

Proper aeration of your compost helps the aerobic bacteria to breakdown the waste into useful nutrients. Ensure you have a method for…

Composting Human Waste

How to Safely Compost Human Waste?

Composting human excrement safely is possible. Dedicate a specific composter to composting human waste alone.

Composting Toilet Cleaning

How to Clean Your Composting Toilet?

Don’t know how to clean your composting toilet? You can only use natural detergents and enzyme catalysts to clean composting toilets.

Kitchen Composting 101

How to Use a Kitchen Compost Bin. Kitchen Composting 101

Instead of dumping leftover food elsewhere, add it to the kitchen compost bin. Your fruit waste will also go into the bin as part of the…