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Show us your kitchen compost container
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
I use an old 5-qt ice cream bucket with a plastic bag liner. I'd LIKE to put it under the sink, but don't currently have room for it down there. So it sits on a side counter right next to the sink. I make sure to keep the lid on it.
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
rowena___. wrote:i keep my kitchen compost materials in a paper bag in the bottom of the kitchen freezer. no flies and no smell. as the moisture in the material freezes, it expands, causing the cell walls to burst. as the materials thaw in the composter, they becomes mushy and decompose very quickly. when the bag is full i take it to the composter, still frozen. i use whatever food-grade paper bags i have on hand--usually bags that held flour or sugar or other such--sometimes i just fold newspaper into a bag shape if i don't have a bag handy.
Great idea! I collect for the week in the fridge but still have to do quite a bit of chopping. Going to try freezing this week! Thanks.
lynn5107- Posts : 1
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
hey, I'm still learning some of the code words. what does "N/A" mean in the forum?
has55- Posts : 2379
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
I also like the freezing method. It works very fast. I use the plastic vegetable/fruit bags that you pull from the rolls at the grocery. I buy the whole roll from the independent grocers and use the bags from one roll for about 2-3 years. they usually have 1500 to 2000 bags to a roll.lynn5107 wrote:rowena___. wrote:i keep my kitchen compost materials in a paper bag in the bottom of the kitchen freezer. no flies and no smell. as the moisture in the material freezes, it expands, causing the cell walls to burst. as the materials thaw in the composter, they becomes mushy and decompose very quickly. when the bag is full i take it to the composter, still frozen. i use whatever food-grade paper bags i have on hand--usually bags that held flour or sugar or other such--sometimes i just fold newspaper into a bag shape if i don't have a bag handy.
Great idea! I collect for the week in the fridge but still have to do quite a bit of chopping. Going to try freezing this week! Thanks.
has55- Posts : 2379
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our container
This was a gift from a brother-in-law who is very good at finding great gifts that I love. He also gave me an herb drying rack.
dstack- Posts : 659
Join date : 2013-08-20
Age : 55
Location : South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale), Zone 10A
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
I got the same one as a gift too. Check out my photo a couple of posts earlier where I was saying basically saying the same thing, but mine was from my brother-in-law. They really do make great gifts for people like us! LOLquiltbea wrote:Mine was a gift from my Dear Dau-In-Law last April for my Birthday. That wonderful gal always has great gift ideas that fit me perfectly. I love it. Its quite large, is odorless, has a filter in the lid and lives under the sink until I tote it to the big compost pile in the back yard.....
dstack- Posts : 659
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Bump
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
We outgrew our little compost container and now have a 5 gallon bucket with a screw on lid in the corner on the floor!
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Here is our kitchen composter courtesy of the City of Ottawa. Actually it's a kitchen scraps collector. During the winter it gets emptied into the outside green bin which gets taken to the street on garbage day for collection by the city. The rest of the year it gets emptied into our garden composter. Meat scraps and other similar scraps go into a bag in the freezer which is emptied weekly into the outside green bin for city pickup.
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
TD, May I ask why you throw away the winter produce scraps and only compost them in the summer? I have a cage of fall leaves to which I add the winter scraps. The winters here are not freezing so they are fairly composted by the time I build the first summer compost pile. Yours may freeze during the winter, but that way, nothing (except meat scraps, fats, etc.) ends up in the municipal dump.
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Sanderson ... Good question. I guess it's because I don't want to go through several feet of snow in -30 Celsius (-40 C windchill) to get to the compost pile which turns into a solid block. Maybe I'll try setting aside a container near the house to collect the winter scraps which can go into the compost pile in the Spring. Maybe I need some indoor pet worms to munch on the scraps over the winter. Anyway our food scraps that go into the green bin for weekly city pickup are taken to an organics recycling facility and do not end up in the city dump.
http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/garbage-and-recycling/green-bin-and-leaf-and-yard-waste/what-goes-your-green-bin
http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/garbage-and-recycling/green-bin-and-leaf-and-yard-waste
http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/garbage-and-recycling/green-bin-and-leaf-and-yard-waste/what-goes-your-green-bin
http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/garbage-and-recycling/green-bin-and-leaf-and-yard-waste
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Okay, the food scraps go into the green waste cycle. That's different from here but at least it doesn't end up in the land fill. That's what I was originally assuming.
kitchen compost containers
Ours are 2 or 3 gallon white buckets that only take about a day to fill up and go to the compost. We have a LOT of green waste. The chickens get some but we have to be careful not to feed them too much fruit or their eggshells get thin.
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
There's a little 2cup plastic rectangle that sits next to the cutting board, and that gets emptied into this bucket with a screw-on lid - seems smaller than 5 gallons, maybe 4? Stays in the kitchen most of the time, but we still get fruitflies once a year and then it tends to get kicked outside for a few weeks until we empty it and clean it.
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
I have a bucket. It is red. With a lid that I don't snap down. From TSC.
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Mine is just a couple of nested bowls under the sink. The smaller one gets the small stuff and when we make salads or peel potatoes, we use the larger one. We empty it every couple of days, so odors and pests aren't a problem, and I grind up the egg shells and big stuff.
We're considering a whole kitchen remodel to add a dishwasher, so I was looking at something fancy that would let me grind up and compost what would normally go into a garbage disposal. Any suggestions?
We're considering a whole kitchen remodel to add a dishwasher, so I was looking at something fancy that would let me grind up and compost what would normally go into a garbage disposal. Any suggestions?
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Hey Suz: My daughter just sent me this the other day. I don’t know anything about it but it sure looked like it would do the job.Countrynaturals wrote:Mine is just a couple of nested bowls under the sink. The smaller one gets the small stuff and when we make salads or peel potatoes, we use the larger one. We empty it every couple of days, so odors and pests aren't a problem, and I grind up the egg shells and big stuff.
We're considering a whole kitchen remodel to add a dishwasher, so I was looking at something fancy that would let me grind up and compost what would normally go into a garbage disposal. Any suggestions?
https://www.facebook.com/yooDesignStudio/videos/10154085188051044/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137&live_video_guests=0
Personally, I use this. I found it at a local shop (Embellish & Restore / Visalia, CA) that has many crafter's wares displayed. Great place. I work hard to stay out of it. I had been using a Folger’s coffee can. It worked but this just grabbed my fancy. It just got cleaned out. I will line it with that paper bag you see in back of it before using it.
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
"My daughter just sent me this the other day. I don’t know anything about it but it sure looked like it would do the job. "
OH MY GOSH! Every time my sister says something like this I correct her. It drives me nuts….then look what I just did!
It should say: “My daughter sent this to me the other day”
OH MY GOSH! Every time my sister says something like this I correct her. It drives me nuts….then look what I just did!
It should say: “My daughter sent this to me the other day”
Mellen- Posts : 128
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Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Well done on the job of self-editing and proper grammar!Mellen wrote:"My daughter just sent me this the other day. I don’t know anything about it but it sure looked like it would do the job. "
OH MY GOSH! Every time my sister says something like this I correct her. It drives me nuts….then look what I just did!
It should say: “My daughter sent this to me the other day”
I love your lidded enameled pot, it is practically perfect!
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Yup, this is what started me looking. I'm afraid the additives aren't organic, so I'd just be making chemical fertilizer. This gadget is way more expensive than a garbage disposal, so it would have to be pretty special and organic. Also, this product isn't even released yet, so I'm worried about what could possibly go wrong.Mellen wrote:Hey Suz: My daughter just sent me this the other day. I don’t know anything about it but it sure looked like it would do the job.
https://www.facebook.com/yooDesignStudio/videos/10154085188051044/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&vid
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Thank you country naturals!!
I saw that too, but couldn't manage to get the link copied to be able to post it.
I thought it was pretty cool.
If we ever do a full kitchen remodel I think I'd like to try to work one of those in.
I saw that too, but couldn't manage to get the link copied to be able to post it.
I thought it was pretty cool.
If we ever do a full kitchen remodel I think I'd like to try to work one of those in.
Zmoore- Posts : 225
Join date : 2015-04-14
Location : Virginia Zone 7a
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Whoops, I jumped to conclusion, well whoever first got the link posted, thank you. Very cool.
Currently I just have a plastic bucket with a lid, made by YIMBY I think, under the sink.
5 gallon bucket in the garage to dump into if I don't go straight to pile.
Generally I go straight to pile with what's under sink, I'd say it's a gallon size.
I generally don't do "hot" method though, I just keep feeding a pile a little at a time after initial set up for awhile.
Currently I just have a plastic bucket with a lid, made by YIMBY I think, under the sink.
5 gallon bucket in the garage to dump into if I don't go straight to pile.
Generally I go straight to pile with what's under sink, I'd say it's a gallon size.
I generally don't do "hot" method though, I just keep feeding a pile a little at a time after initial set up for awhile.
Zmoore- Posts : 225
Join date : 2015-04-14
Location : Virginia Zone 7a
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
The dog biscuit can is adorable and seems like the perfect size for a kitchen counter.
I keep looking at that composting machine, watching the video, and have finally firmed up my vote. No. I wouldn't waste money on it. Too expensive and I am skeptical of 24 hours compost.
I keep looking at that composting machine, watching the video, and have finally firmed up my vote. No. I wouldn't waste money on it. Too expensive and I am skeptical of 24 hours compost.
Re: Show us your kitchen compost container
Zmoore wrote:
5 gallon bucket in the garage to dump into if I don't go straight to pile.
Me, too. A few 5 gal buckets with lids get me thru the winter when I can't get out to the pile.
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