Extreme Gardeners

by Matt Chung

Article by Nicole Roberts

While not everyone has the luxury of owning properties with lots of yard space to grow a garden or have a compost pile, more and more people are finding that they can have miniature flower and even vegetable gardens even when they have little or no yard at all. Flowerbeds, window boxes and container gardening have all become popular ways for even urban dwellers to enjoy gardening. However, most have not been able to reap the benefits that compost can add to these endeavors. However, kitchen composting bins can change all that even for people who don’t have the out of door space to have a big compost pile.What is A Kitchen Compost Bin?

A compost bin is a small pail or bin designed for indoor composting. Many of these bins look a lot like kitchen trash cans so they won’t look out of place in your home. However, they are designed to seal out odors so that your kitchen smells so clean that no one will know that you have a miniature compost pile in kitchen. They allow those people who have small gardening needs to have rich fertile compost for their flowerbeds and container vegetables while helping to save on garbage bills and doing their part for the environment. Counter top compost bins are perfect for those who are just starting out. Counter top compost bins hold around a gallon of compost and are usually designed to look attractive.How To Get Started With Kitchen Composting

To get started with kitchen composting all you need is a kitchen composting bin and your everyday food scraps such as vegetable peelings, eggshells, coffee grounds and tea bags. As you peel those potatoes and carrots, crack those eggs or clean your coffee filter, simply place those scraps into the compost bin. It usually takes about two weeks for the food in the bins to completely compost but this depends a great deal on how often you add to the compost bin.Once the food has completely broken down and looks like dirt then your compost is ready to be applied to those flowerbeds or those gardening containers. It really is that simple and easy.Keep in mind, however, that you don’t want to put meat scraps into your composter as meat takes longer to break down and is not the best of composting material to begin with. It is best to stick with vegetable scraps and peelings, coffee grounds, eggshells and tea bags. Newspapers can be shredded and composted, but they don’t always work well in kitchen composting because most kitchen composting bins are quite small and paper takes up a lot of room. It is best to recycle those old newspapers elsewhere.While kitchen composting is great for those who have small flowerbeds or limited growing space and no yard, they are handy for people who have outside compost piles and don’t want to be running out to the compost pile several times a day. For larger gardeners, the kitchen composting bin can be filled and then dumped into the outdoor composting bin once a day or once a week whatever the case may be.Kitchen composting is a great way to fertilize those plants whether you simply have a flower box attached to your window or a small flowerbed or a larger garden and simply want the convenience of having a compost bin in your kitchen.

www.howdini.com How to compost How to make compost How does your garden grow? A lot better if the soil is enriched with compost from your own compost pile. Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine, shows how to make and use compost. Keywords: how to compost how to make compost making compost making a compost pile

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