Winter Composting: Should I Just Scrap It? (article)

By Ginny Figlar Colon, originally found here. Nice … half-frozen veggie scraps molded together in a solid mass. Not exactly what I want to see in my compost bin. With at least five more months of cold weather before warmth and sunshine reappear, why do I even bother keeping the pile going? Well, I guess I do know why. Diverting even a handful of potato skins from the trash gives me an unexplainable sense of satisfaction. (If you aren’t yet a composter, you just can’t relate to this strange obsession with vegetable scraps.) So after filling my compost bin with a big batch of freshly raked leaves this weekend, I did a little online research to see what I could do to make it a wee bit more productive this…

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Worm Composting Feeding Tips (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBqwfm4sU6U I just found this web channel called Big Tex Worms, and she has some great videos to check out on the topic of vermicomposting.  You'll see that my website gets really worm-centric in the colder months as the outdoor methods slow down to a crawl here in the northeast. This video shows some pretty standard methods for preparing worm feed, but when it gets to Step 4, I was definitely surprised.  I've never seen anyone make worm food into balls first, and I wonder what the point is.  I guess they're handy and represent a fixed amount of material for your worms to digest. If they don't start eating it within a few days, that means they might not like it and it's acidic...so I guess it's a good…

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