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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10254 Location: in the air tonight
Yup, food scraps and coffee grounds go in the compost container instead of the trash, get mixed in with a bunch of leaves and stuff in the backyard bin, and it will all hopefully turn into healthy soil for the garden. I'm still very much in a learning phase
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10254 Location: in the air tonight
My understanding is that you can put any dead plants in there. I think you're supposed to strive for a 3:1 ratio of brown:green, or carbon-heavy stuff versus nitrogen-heavy stuff. And grass ends up being more "green", like food scraps. So I'd think you'd need to find something "brown" as well to be the base of your pile. There are a lot of options, though. It's easy up here in the northeast where there is a never ending supply of dead leaves
Joined: Sun September 15, 2013 5:50 am Posts: 22286
do you get a lot of flies? my neighbor has one and i dunno if he is doing it by the book but i walked close to it and a million flies were buzzing around and i was like welp that's kinda gross
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10254 Location: in the air tonight
I think flies are a sign that something is going wrong. I had some flies one time when I didn't bury some scraps deep enough in the leaves. But I fixed that and no more flies
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10254 Location: in the air tonight
Yeah, I'm of the mind that unless you are dealing with some fascist homeowners association, it's best to just shoot the grass out of the mower because cut grass is good for the lawn and it disappears very quickly
Joined: Sun September 15, 2013 5:50 am Posts: 22286
cutuphalfdead wrote:
If you're gonna do that you can't let it grow too long before mowing.
wisdom
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