RE: Composting

[Guest guest]

>If yes, do you keep lid closed on the compost bin?

 

I have a couple compost bins and have not had a mold problem, just a

fruit fly problem due to excess moisture. I don't have much dry

material to add to it to reduce the moisture.

 

The bins I have, have hundreds of holes which I had drilled into

them, allowing some air circulation. I had also cut holes in the

bottom, allowing both liquid to drain and worms to climb brom below.

The lids I keep on.

 

Jeff

[Guest guest]

Thank you Sue and Jeff ,

 

Only fruit flies? I have many different flies there, different size and shape.

I am using the type of a bin which already has many holes and doesn’t have the

bottom (from Costco store).

 

 

Jeff Rogers <jeff wrote:

>If yes, do you keep lid closed on the compost bin?

 

I have a couple compost bins and have not had a mold problem, just a

fruit fly problem due to excess moisture. I don't have much dry

material to add to it to reduce the moisture.

 

The bins I have, have hundreds of holes which I had drilled into

them, allowing some air circulation. I had also cut holes in the

bottom, allowing both liquid to drain and worms to climb brom below.

The lids I keep on.

 

Jeff

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

> Only fruit flies? I have many different flies there, different size

and shape.

> I am using the type of a bin which already has many holes and doesn’t

have the

> bottom (from Costco store).

 

fwiw... i quite wrestling compost bins several years ago and have gone

to putting my food scraps and yard wastes directly on the garden and

covering them with alfalfa hay

i find this to be wayyy easier than bins, barrels etc. and the worms and

other subterranean creatures love it

 

one problem with this method can be attracting animals that are looking

for something to eat so i have a large piece of stiff fencing that i

keep over the fresh scraps

 

ideally this method requires an area of the garden that is regenerating

(fallow) while another area is producing...

then alternate the plots the following year

 

in the spring, you won't need to turn the soil and disrupt all the work

that the microbes have been doing during the fallow stage

just pull back the material that is to coarse to plant in and sow

directly into the mellow soil

 

norm  )~

 

......  raw food, simply wonderful  .....

[Guest guest]

Thanks Norm, I still need to figure out what to do with mold and why I have it.

 

kelpguy <kelpguy wrote:> Only fruit flies? I have many

different flies there, different size

and shape.

> I am using the type of a bin which already has many holes and doesn’t

have the

> bottom (from Costco store).

 

fwiw... i quite wrestling compost bins several years ago and have gone

to putting my food scraps and yard wastes directly on the garden and

covering them with alfalfa hay

i find this to be wayyy easier than bins, barrels etc. and the worms and

other subterranean creatures love it

 

one problem with this method can be attracting animals that are looking

for something to eat so i have a large piece of stiff fencing that i

keep over the fresh scraps

 

ideally this method requires an area of the garden that is regenerating

(fallow) while another area is producing...

then alternate the plots the following year

 

in the spring, you won't need to turn the soil and disrupt all the work

that the microbes have been doing during the fallow stage

just pull back the material that is to coarse to plant in and sow

directly into the mellow soil

 

norm )~

 

...... raw food, simply wonderful .....