This is what happens when you don’t empty your food scrap collector often enough…

The summer calls for more frequent emptying of the food scrap collector- I went over a week and now I’ve got fruit flies.

No food scrap collector is immune from bugs, but the Sure-Close buys you some time- if you empty it once a week you should be all set.

Made a new pile- Finally!

I finally got around to doing some guerilla gardening in the neighborhood to empty out my finished compost- I had nearly a cubic yard of the stuff left over!

The Geobin compost bin is not the prettiest looking thing you can buy, but it gets the job done every time with ease- I’ve had mine going for over 8 years now 🙂

To start this pile, all I did was add two full garbage bags of leaves, followed by a week’s worth of food scraps and some extra stuff that went bad in the fridge.

I soaked down the pile, then added another couple inches’ worth of leaves on top and got that wet, too.

A week later, and this thing is cooking at a temperature of 142 degrees!

It’s that easy.

The worms didn’t die either- they simply moved to the outer edges of the pile until the initial cooking is done.

I LOVE using this system- when you’re working with a bin this size, it makes it really hard to screw up.

Add your food scraps to the center, cover them each week with leaves/straw/dead plants. If it doesn’t rain, water it weekly.

That’s it!

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The easiest way to compost

If you have the room for these, this is by far the best way to compost- throw stuff in the pile, cover it and walk away.

It’s cheaper than a compost tumbler, and there’s no need to worry about oversaturating the contents or having odor issues.

With a pile of this size, it’s easy to hit the high temperatures needed to create fertile, finished compost.

Even cheaper, chicken wire shaped into a circle will get the job done, too.

I basically wrote a book based my experience using this compost bin- I boiled it all down to the bare essentials to keep composting simple and efficient. Grab it over here for a nice discount 🙂