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Winter Compost Hot House (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fXojKyHnE What a great idea! I'm curious if there's airholes drilled anywhere on this, but since this will be going all winter with direct sunlight on it, I doubt it will matter much anyway. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for some windows being tossed to the curb...this would be a fun project. I currently have a tarp covering my compost bin, and it would definitely benefit from windows to get a bit more attention. My main concern for using the tarp was to prevent cigarette butts from getting thrown in and starting a fire. The downside to the tarp is when it rains, it collapses pretty easily into the bin. A sturdy window frame wouldn't have this problem! Hmm...

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…

Guide to Composting in the Winter (article)

Have you ever checked out the website earth911.com? I've checked it out plenty when it comes to finding recycling avenues for anything imaginable...but I never thought to see if they had any material on composting. It turns out that they do, and I've been asked a lot about starting a compost pile in the winter. While composting isn't easy in the wintertime, it is doable. Let's see what earth911 has to say about it in the article below... Just as you started to get into a solid groove with your compost pile this past summer and fall, churning over plentiful amounts of that beautiful garden gold, BAM! Winter hits. But don’t throw in the shovel just because a white blanket of snow or a hardened sheet of ice now sits…