Best Composting Tips

ducks4you said:
As the saying goes, "just do it."
Easiest way is to tie together 3 wood pallets, making the 4th one a gate.
Simply fill it.
When it's full, empty it out next to the pallets and refill.
End of season you can dig trenches in your beds and bury your compost.
A corner of your property is a good place to put your compost.
Also, if you keep a bucket in your kitchen for vegetable scraps you can empty it daily into your compost.
Articles on composting suggest that you tend it, and THAT becomes another job, which is probably why you are hesitating and asking for advice.
Also buy (or sometimes hardware stores have bucket giveaway specials,) ANYWAY get a big plastic painters bucket, or smaller one--your choice--put grass clippings or ANY weeds WITHOUT SEEDS into it, leave it out for the rain and let it ferment. This is called "compost tea," and you fertilize your garden plants with it.
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If you throw a bit of spoiled milk, comfrey, or fish fish in that bucket it now becomes high Nitrogen too. I always add a can of sardines when I restart it once a month. Just make sure you dilute it at least 1-5, preferably 1-10 for most plants. A quart sized yogurt container full in a 2 Gallon bucket of water works well. Only use once a week.
 
@Rillowen
bind weed is very difficult. In the past, prior to bad now repaired knees, I spent a good week digging up and eliminating bindweed on the west edge of my 4 car garage. I used a shovel, a painter's bucket and I cleaned the soil from bindweed runners in a wheelbarrow, then amended it an put it back into the bed. Gotta do it aGAIN.
Best practice is to pull bindweed when you can AND toss it in the garbage!
If you throw it on the lawn it will REGROW.
Probably the wind carried seeds into your compost.
I Know it's hard work, but keeping the pods from forming end of season--they will look like an alien invasion, like
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/. They disperse their seeds with parachutes in the Fall. THAT is possibly where you got some growing in your compost.
You then have ALL WINTER to grab the pods you missed and dispose of them.
 
ducks4you said:
@Rillowen
bind weed is very difficult. In the past, prior to bad now repaired knees, I spent a good week digging up and eliminating bindweed on the west edge of my 4 car garage. I used a shovel, a painter's bucket and I cleaned the soil from bindweed runners in a wheelbarrow, then amended it an put it back into the bed. Gotta do it aGAIN.
Best practice is to pull bindweed when you can AND toss it in the garbage!
If you throw it on the lawn it will REGROW.
Probably the wind carried seeds into your compost.
I Know it's hard work, but keeping the pods from forming end of season--they will look like an alien invasion, like
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/. They disperse their seeds with parachutes in the Fall. THAT is possibly where you got some growing in your compost.
You then have ALL WINTER to grab the pods you missed and dispose of them.
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Thanj you for the tips!
I dont have bind weed, its poison ivy and multiflora rose. I have found a morning glory type plant in the garden, but its doesn't seem to thrive here and I only gets an occasional vine or 2, which i just leave because I like the flowers and it doesnt grow much. Poison ivy though,... is everywhere in this state, and the state maintained ditches are often full of it. My compost pile is right on the edge of the property, next to the ditche, so it keeps spreading up.
The multiflora rose is because 20 years ago the state advocating for farmers to spread it around to help pollinators and stop errosion... until they realized its invasive. So now it's everywhere, and so hard to strangle since any little speckled of root just grows that thorny woody vining bush back. 🙄 it drives me bonkers, the thorns are so sharp too!
 
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