Composting

Composting is not that hard. I've seen ads for expensive composters but we are doing it the simple way. We keep a small pail with a lid in the kitchen. All our veg scraps go in, along with fruit peels, coffee grounds, egg shells and believe it or not, dryer lint! Every day or 2 (or for as long as he can get away with) our son takes all this out to a far corner of the yard and dumps it. (We live in a rural area so it isn't close to another house, not even that close to ours. Plus a well-kept compost pile has little or no odor.) Every few days it is supposed to get turned. I know it's doing well because underneath there are red worms hard at work. In the fall we want the compost to help us start a strawberry bed!

Keep meat and milk products out of your compost pile so it won't draw animals.

I thought we'd have a huge pile by now but it breaks down quite a bit really. We don't have as much stuff there as I'd expected.

In a few weeks I plan to load it in the wheelbarrow and add it to our garden. Then we'll start all over!