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Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
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Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
It was great our last downstairs tenants wanted to use the compost tumbler I wasn't using... However, I should have given out instructions...
*peach pits don't compost
*avocado pits don't compost
*chicken bones don't compost (ugh!)
*stacked up bunches of egg shells don't compost
The down side - the tenants moved on and I've been sifting compost for 3 days now...
The up side - I've probably sifted out about a 5-gallon bucket of compost/fine egg shells to add to a very neglected flower bed... AND - I get my composter back!
*peach pits don't compost
*avocado pits don't compost
*chicken bones don't compost (ugh!)
*stacked up bunches of egg shells don't compost
The down side - the tenants moved on and I've been sifting compost for 3 days now...
The up side - I've probably sifted out about a 5-gallon bucket of compost/fine egg shells to add to a very neglected flower bed... AND - I get my composter back!
kittykat- Posts : 194
Join date : 2012-03-18
Location : Coastal Britsh Columbia
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
+1.... all that left over stuff will break down, eventually! It was a good thing they used it and left you a mini gold mine eh?Chopper wrote:
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Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
Sounds like the positives outweigh the negatives to me.
Healthier flowers!
Healthier flowers!
givvmistamps- Posts : 862
Join date : 2012-04-01
Age : 53
Location : Lake City, (NE) FL; USDA Hardiness Zone 8b, AHS Heat Zone 9, Sunset Zone 28
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
KK
There is great sense in the very very old saying of " Neither a borrower or a lender be " ,
It took me years learn to stop lending out my gear , offer to rent out it without any liabilities on your part instead .
There is great sense in the very very old saying of " Neither a borrower or a lender be " ,
It took me years learn to stop lending out my gear , offer to rent out it without any liabilities on your part instead .
plantoid- Posts : 4097
Join date : 2011-11-09
Age : 73
Location : At the west end of M4 in the UK
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
hehe... yeah - lesson learned, for sure... I'm happy for the compost even though it's taking some work to sift it out of the uncomposted debris... I'm sorting out the stuff that just won't compost, as well as the bits of plastic, etc., and throwing the rest back into the tumbler for my next batch...
All's well that ends well...
All's well that ends well...
kittykat- Posts : 194
Join date : 2012-03-18
Location : Coastal Britsh Columbia
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
Wish my landlord had a compost tumbler. I'm having trouble turning him on to the idea of composting at all. He thinks it will be unsightly and smell bad.
HereIGrowAgain- Posts : 24
Join date : 2012-04-09
Age : 60
Location : South Western NC, zone 7
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
Oh dear, kittykat. It does seem to have turned out well for you, though.
The condo association forbids composting of any kind ... even the fully enclosed tumbler-types.
The condo association forbids composting of any kind ... even the fully enclosed tumbler-types.
JeanneRamick- Posts : 49
Join date : 2012-03-16
Age : 83
Location : West MI (5b)
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
That is just nutsThe condo association forbids composting of any kind ... even the fully enclosed tumbler-types.
GWN- Posts : 2804
Join date : 2012-01-14
Age : 67
Location : british columbia zone 5a
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
JeanneRamick wrote:The condo association forbids composting of any kind ... even the fully enclosed tumbler-types.
Awww... So sad!!
kittykat- Posts : 194
Join date : 2012-03-18
Location : Coastal Britsh Columbia
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
This is why I am kinda on the fence about starting a community compost bin here.
I am afraid that it turn more into trash bin than a compost pile.
Anyone here have experience with communal compost piles for community gardens and the like?
I am afraid that it turn more into trash bin than a compost pile.
Anyone here have experience with communal compost piles for community gardens and the like?
Daniel9999- Posts : 244
Join date : 2012-03-10
Location : Oregon
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
Daniel9999 wrote:This is why I am kinda on the fence about starting a community compost bin here.
I am afraid that it turn more into trash bin than a compost pile.
Anyone here have experience with communal compost piles for community gardens and the like?
Unfortunately, if you want to have a community compost pile, you or someone you trust, will have to monitor everything that gets dropped off for composting. Better yet, you could go to each person's home to collect compost materials. That way you will see exactly what's being turned in for composting and toss out undesirable things.
Too Tall Tomatoes- Posts : 1069
Join date : 2011-10-24
Age : 53
Location : Pennsylvania, Zone 6A
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
JeanneRamick wrote:
The condo association forbids composting of any kind ... even the fully enclosed tumbler-types.
sounds like you need an indoor compost bin, Jeanne. One I found that looks interesting...they are small but anything is better than nothing!
Apartment therapy
CindiLou- Posts : 999
Join date : 2010-08-30
Age : 64
Location : South Central Iowa, Zone 5a (20mi dia area in 5b zone)rofl...
Re: Note to self - give tenants composting instructions when you lend out your compost tumbler...
Too Tall Tomatoes wrote:Daniel9999 wrote:This is why I am kinda on the fence about starting a community compost bin here.
I am afraid that it turn more into trash bin than a compost pile.
Anyone here have experience with communal compost piles for community gardens and the like?
Unfortunately, if you want to have a community compost pile, you or someone you trust, will have to monitor everything that gets dropped off for composting. Better yet, you could go to each person's home to collect compost materials. That way you will see exactly what's being turned in for composting and toss out undesirable things.
+1
We have a 3 bin compost bin at the community garden. Members did not break down things correctly (pulling up whole 2' plants and throwing them in), they also threw all kinds of things in that they shouldn't. With a 3 bin system, you work one while the other two are in different stages of the process. With 3 or 4 different languages among members, getting that info out never worked.
One member did the labor, turning the pile regularly.
Then another member came and took it all the goodies, instead of just part.
No more composting!
The trash system at the garden includes mandatory recycling. Brown cans for city compost pile, black for non-compost. Members routinely thrown the wrong thing into those cans, which they presumably have at their homes as well.
Go figure.
AvaDGardner- Posts : 634
Join date : 2012-02-17
Location : Garden Grove, CA (still Zone 10b)
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