Found this on LA Moms Blog – it’s a good foray into talking about composting.
In Los Angeles we can compost in our green bins. I’m almost ready to move past my childhood composting trauma and give it a try… almost.
By Emily
About a year and a half ago, I posted a series on my personal blog entitled The Lazy Mother’s Guide To Saving the Planet. It was all about being eco-friendly by doing less, or, in my case, using the environment as a convenient excuse to avoid wrapping holiday presents. And I got to thinking, “This would be a fantastic idea for a book.”
Obviously, I wasn’t the only one who thought so.
I have gotten over my disappointment that someone beat me to the book, but I haven’t gotten over my laziness or my environmentalism. I still eschew goody bags at parties and prefer hand-me-downs to new stuff (I am also cheap). And I still let yellow mellow.
What I don’t do is compost. I know, I know. Food waste either sullies the water supply or sits in a plastic garbage bag, waiting to decompose sometime around when my great-great-great-granddaughter gets Bat Mitzvahed. Properly composted, it can be fertilizer for all that food I am supposed to be growing in my yard.
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Ok. so I didn’t compost when I lived in LA. Now I live on 400 acres and have 2000sqf of gardens–in the desert. I need compost to add to our dirt to make it soil. Visiting LA recently, my sister informed me that you could put food scraps into the green bins. Here is a list of do’s and don’ts for city and country composting. Do compost:Nearly any plant material, raw food scraps, egg shells, coffee grinds, weeds and yard waste, bio-degradable and compostable food containers ( the ones made from corn) old flowers, hair clippingsDon’t put any meat, dairy products, fats, or oils into
the compost pile. These materials tend to putrefy instead of breaking
down, and will attract a wide variety of pests, including flies, rats,
raccoons, stray dogs and cats, etc.Don’t put dog and cat wastes into the compost
pile. The manure from any animal that eats meat contains several
pathogens which will survive the compost process, and affect any fruits
or vegetables on which the compost may be used.
I recently started composing and found a really informative book called “Compost Rodale Organic Gardening Basics” that has been helpful. It is actually extremely easy to compost. I was looking forward to using the compost in my organic veggie garden, but a gopher has literally eaten all my plants. I guess by the time I re-plant I’ll just have that much more compost.
A very sorround sound blog here… aaah what I meant there was you keep a good balance.. :).. I for one had a small dog.. Not of a particular breed just a street dog who I used to feed ocassionally…Turned out she would go nuts on anybody who tried to approach me.. Geesh!