Compost help?

Question

I've ben wanting to make compost out of kitchen scraps, i thought there was nothing to it but put food in a pile and wait for it to turn into dirt, but no matter how long i wait it always turns out to be stinky smelly pile of goo. how do i make kitchen scraps into compost?.

Answer 1

Almost any organic material is suitable for a compost pile. The pile needs a proper ratio of carbon-rich materials, or "browns," and nitrogen-rich materials, or "greens." Among the brown materials are dried leaves, straw, and wood chips. Nitrogen materials are fresh or green, such as grass clippings and kitchen scraps.

Kitchen Refuse includes melon rinds, carrot peelings, tea bags, apple cores, banana peels - almost everything that cycles through your kitchen. The average household produces more than 200 pounds of kitchen waste every year. You can successfully compost all forms of kitchen waste. However, meat, meat products, dairy products, and high-fat foods like salad dressings and peanut butter, can present problems. Meat scraps and the rest will decompose eventually, but will smell bad and attract pests. Egg shells are a wonderful addition, but decompose slowly, so should be crushed. All additions to the compost pile will decompose more quickly if they are chopped up some before adding.

To collect your kitchen waste, you can keep a small compost pail in the kitchen to bring to the pile every few days. Keep a lid on the container to discourage insects. When you add kitchen scraps to the compost pile, cover them with about 8" of brown material to reduce visits by flies or critters.

Answer 2

Think of your compost pile as making a Lasagna, it's done in layers.

First off, anything that had a face, or products from something that had a face, doesn't belong in the compost pile.

The exception to that rule is egg shells, those are great because they add calcium to the soil. The best way to use eggshells, is to save the rinsed shells in a can, until you have a good handful. Put these in a blender, add water and grind them into a watery slurry and put them in your pile.

The "Lasagna" should be a layer of grass clippings, leaves, small wood chips, or similar organic material.

Next would be your kitchen scraps, followed by a layer of cheap bagged topsoil (like from Wal-Mart).

If you do these layers and follow the face rule, your pile should never stink.

Answer 3

Put leaves, weeds, grass clippings, newsprint, in with the food scraps (no meat or oils and avoid lemons as the worms don't like them) Making compost is like baking a cake, you need the right ingredients, wet and dry.
It's a good idea to use a compost bin which allows you to layer it up and it keeps animals out of it. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You need to add a layer of soil or very dry grass cuttings every once in a while.

Answer 5

try to bury them and then check it after 3-4 weeks. it works for me!