Composting is a great
way to recycle your kitchen scraps, as well as help your garden! It is
great for most plants, and it is easier than most people realize!
You
don't need a big space like most people think. In fact, a lot of
people I know compost in their apartment! Here is a picture of the
containter I use for my compost. There are holes poked in the lid:
Here are some things you probably didn't know you could compost:
Paper napkins
Bat guano (yep - their crap)
Fish scraps
Tea bags and grounds
Coffee grounds
Apple cores
Outdated yogurt
Shrimp, crab and lobster shells
Pie crust
Leather wallets
Goat crap
Onion skins
Watermelon rinds
Date pits
Olive pits
Peanut shells
Burned oatmeal
Lint from clothes dryer
Bread crusts
Cooked rice
River mud
Tofu
Wine gone bad
Banana peels
Fingernail and toenail clippings
Chocolate cookies
Wooden toothpicks
Moss from last year's hanging baskets
Stale breakfast cereal
Pickles
'Dust bunnies' from under the bed
Pencil shavings
Wool socks
Artichoke leaves
Leather watch bands
Fruit salad
Tossed salad (heheheheh)
Brown paper bags
Old cheerios
Lees from making wine
Burned toast
Feathers
Animal fur
Vacuum cleaner bag contents
Coconut hull fiber
Old or outdated seeds
Macaroni and cheese
Liquid from canned vegetables
Liquid from canned fruit
Old beer
Wedding bouquets
Greeting card envelopes
Snow
Dead bees and flies
Peanut butter sandwiches
Dirt from soles of shoes, boots
Fish bones
Ivory soap scraps
Spoiled canned fruits and vegetables
Produce trimmings from grocery store
Cardboard cereal boxes (shredded)
Grocery receipts
Freezer-burned vegetables
Pet hair
Post-it notes
Freezer-burned fruit
Wood chips
Bee droppings
Lint from behind refrigerator
Hay
un-popped popcorn
Freezer-burned fish
Old spices
Pine needles
Leaves
Matches (paper or wood)
Hops
Chicken crap
Leather dust
Old, dried up and faded herbs
Bird cage cleanings
Paper towels
Brewery wastes
Grass clippings
Hoof and horn meal
Molasses residue
Potato peelings
Hair clippings from the barber
Stale bread
Wood ashes
Sawdust
Shredded newspapers
Egg shells
Alfalfa
Winter rye
Grapefruit rinds
Pea vines
Houseplant trimmings
Old pasta
Grape wastes
Garden soil
Powdered/ground phosphate rock
Corncobs (takes forever to break down, cut into fourths before adding to compost pile)
Jell-o
Blood meal
Winery wastes
Spanish moss
Limestone
Fish meal
Aquarium plants
Beet wastes
Wheat straw
Peat moss
Kleenex tissues
Soy milk
Tree bark
Melted ice cream
Flower petals
Pumpkin seeds
Expired flower arrangements
Elmer's glue
Bone meal
Stale potato chips
Rhubarb stems
Tobacco wastes
Bird guano
Hog manure
Wheat bran
Guinea pig cage cleanings
Nut shells
Clover
Granite dust
Moldy cheese
Greensand
Straw
Shredded cardboard
To read more about composting, here is a link to the Wikipedia site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost
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